Odds and Ends - 5/29

Episcopal Church fires 61 Central Valley priests

The Episcopal Church has fired, or in its words “deposed,” 61 priests and deacons in the Central Valley who followed former Bishop John David Schofield when he rebuked the national church and aligned with the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone, a conservative group based in South America.... Mr. Schofield was deposed in March 2008. He and the various priests and deacons objected to the Episcopal Church’s ordination of gays to the priesthood among other things...

In other related news...

Father Alberto Cutié joins Episcopal church, will marry...

The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the celebrity priest removed from his Miami Beach church after photos of him kissing and embracing a woman appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language magazine earlier this month, has left the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami to join the Episcopal church and announced that he will marry the woman he has dated for two years....

Meanwhile...

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Bong Revilla resigns Senate position in disgust, joins showbiz

"Ayoko na!"
Senator Bong Revilla today resigned as senator to protest the uberdramatic attention given by the highest legislative body to the Kho-Halili sex video scandals, saying it is a 'sideshow' and a 'distraction'. Revilla declares that there are infinitely more pressing matters of state concerns that merits the august body's cerebral focus. "I've had enough of this show, I would rather go where the real action is", he says. Lolit Solis is reportedly gearing up to be his manager.
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