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The Episcopal Church's gay and lesbian lobby is vowing to fight any retreat from the denomination's recent embrace of homosexuality. A report by a 14-member commission late last week urged dioceses to proceed with caution when choosing bishops whose "manner of life presents a challenge" to the wider church. The commission was referring to the election of priests as bishops who are known to be homosexual. The commission was formed to propose recommendations to the Episcopal Church, which is the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, about efforts of a majority of the Communion to expel the Episcopal Church...

As I mentioned before we started our celebration of this Eucharist, today we will be baptizing our newest family member: Aidan Abraham Nolan. I hope that as we do that, all of us remind ourselves that what happens when we baptize a new member to our parish family as an infant -- all of us take on a responsibility. This tiny baby will be clothed in Christ today, become a new creation, but he has to continue to grow into the fullness of being like Jesus and so we all have the responsibility of trying to make sure that he...