Anglican Archbishop of Perth announces retirement
The Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Roger Herft, has announced he intends to retire a year earlier than planned. The moves comes after the archbishop annouced in October he was stepping aside so he could “focus my attention” on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s “ongoing inquiry into the Diocese of Newcastle”. In […]
Australia’s Anglican Primate says Christians should vote “according to their conscience” in same-sex marriage plebiscite
Christians should “vote according to their conscience” and their view of what is best for society should a plebiscite on same-sex marriage be held, according to the Anglican Primate of Australia, Archbishop Philip Freier. In a pastoral letter to Australia’s Anglican bishops, Archbishop Freier also said that if the vote at a plebiscite is in […]