A Three-Length Lead On The Vatican

Office efficiencies: the diocese upgrades its phone system

Don't rush us, we're Anglicans. Reform-minded B.C. bishop Michael Ingham:

"Today we have a better understanding of homosexuality as a basic and natural orientation experienced by some members of the human community, just as we find the same thing among some animal species, and in Christian terms we must come to think of this as not only natural but also God-given and good.

"But these developments in the social sciences and therefore in popular understanding are still relatively new -- since about the 19th century. They have not yet penetrated the church's thinking except at the edges of its consciousness and greatly against its will."