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The Vatican’s recent decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples has caused an uproar in the Catholic Church. These splits center on a set of fundamental questions about the nature of ...
Churches that still want to leave the United Methodist Church as part of a splintering in the denomination no longer have a procedural way to do so, or at least with their property in tow.
It’s official. These churches across the state will go their own way after the United Methodist Church approved the separation Tuesday. The split was largely over LGBTQ issues.
Canon 751 of the Latin Church's 1983 Code of Canon Law, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1983, defines schism as the following: "schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him". [4] This definition is reused in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. [5]
On 14 October 1834, a large majority of the congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ulrum, signed the Act of Secession and Return" and broke away from the State Church. [3] [7] The Secession would play a role in the 1857 Dutch Reformed Church split between the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church in North America ...
(Probably the reason why the issue of evolution has obtained such an iconic status within the popular consciousness about the fundamentalist–modernist controversy is that it represented the one point where internal church politics intersected with government, specifically public school, policy.)
Only one church in Oregon, Fossil United Methodist Church, in Fossil, a small city in the middle of Oregon, disaffiliated over the weekend, while 11 churches in Washington state disaffiliated.
The United Methodist Church this year removed bans on same-sex marriage and gay clergy. ... Two former U.S. United Methodist bishops were already full-time, overworked GMC bishops, and in July ...