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Group reaches out to bring others in - St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg

This fledgling Catholic community takes away barriers to leadership roles.
By WAVENEY ANN MOORE, Times Staff Writer
Published November 3, 2007

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/03/Northpinellas/Group_reaches_out_to_.shtml

 

Married convert ordained a priest - Orange County Register (AP) - 2/11/06 - Ex-Episcopalian cleric admitted under unusual Catholic rule.

SAN BERNARDINO – A former Episcopalian priest who converted to Catholicism became the first married cleric ordained in the Diocese of San Bernardino on Friday. As his wife and two children looked on at Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral, Gregory Elder was ordained into the Roman Catholic clergy through a rarely invoked exemption to Canon Law called the Pastoral Provision.

To see the article, go to: http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/state/article_994855.php

Priest found guilty of heresy - The Press Enterprise 1/20/06 INLAND DIOCESE: The verdict comes after what may have been the first trial of its kind in the U.S. To see the article, go to the Press Enterprise site at:

 http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_P_heresy20.1dc24dcb.html

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San Bernardino Diocese Charges ECC Member With Heresy - The Press Enterprise 1/20/06

It was reported in the January 20, 2006 Press-Enterprise that the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino declared the Reverend Ned Reidy, co-pastor at Pathfinder Community of the Risen Christ in Bermuda Dunes, CA (near Palm Desert), a member of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion, guilty of heresy and schism, in what is being called one of the first trials of it's kind in US history. To see the article, go to the Press-Enterprise site at:

 http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_P_heresy20.1dc24dcb.html

 

Catholic Church Tries Ex-Priest for Heresy

- by Steven Cuevas

 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5074599

 

Diocese clarifies its reasons for heresy trial

- The Press Enterprise 1/21/06 It was reported in the January 20, 2006 Press-Enterprise PRIEST'S STATUS: Inland Catholic Church officials wanted no doubts about the cleric's connections. o see the article, go to the Press-Enterprise site at:

 http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_heresy21.227ff623.html

 

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