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Title: ELCA Council Authorizes Rite, Receives Report on 'Bound Conscience'
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>April 16, 2010  

ELCA Council Authorizes Rite, Receives Report on 'Bound Conscience'
10-115-MRC/JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA) authorized a rite designed to receive pastors
from Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries (ELM) onto the ELCA's roster of
ordained ministers. It also received a report on the church's attention
to the concept of "bound conscience" and addressed other topics.

>More:
>http://www.elca.org/News/Releases.asp?a=4501

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