The Narthex
Random Ruminations #30
Chicago Drama... Anglican Cringe... No, Virginia... Connecting the Dots... and more
By John M. Grondelski | October 13th 2025 11:57 AMChicago Drama ICE's current campaign against illegal immigrants in Chicago has led to numerous detentions at its Maywood, Illinois, facility. Complaints are now being made that ICE is preventing pastoral access (confessions and Communion calls) to detainees. If true, that would be concerning. People should have religious care. However, I…
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As Anglicanism fractures, with whom is Rome to conduct dialogue?
By John M. Grondelski | June 15th 2023 12:38 PMThe significance of the outcome of the Fourth Global Anglican Future Convention (GAFCON IV) held last April in Kigali, Rwanda, is coming into ever sharper relief. That an overwhelming portion of Anglicanism, especially in the “Global South,” has been pushed to the point that it no longer recognizes its communion…
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