SPLIT IN WORLD CHRISTIANITY
(Tuesday) Dr. Uwe Siemon-Netto, UPI religion editor, and Lutheran theologian, thinks that the split over the ordination of a homosexual bishop in the Episcopal Church signals a major rift in Christianity as a whole. He quotes the normally moderate Cardinal Walter Kasper, a German in the Vatican hierarchy -- president of the Pontifical Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity, "What's happening here is in many ways worse than the great schisms 1,000 and 500 years ago..." Link