News Updates

News Updates

February 2003

• Former Long Island Priest May Be Reinstated

  The Rt. Rev. Orris G. Walker, Jr., Bishop of Long Island, has received standing committee approval to reinstate a former priest whose promiscuous sexual lifestyle was the subject of a lurid Penthouse magazine article in 1996.

  Posted on February 28, 2003

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• Milwaukee Bishop Helps Set Tone for Church Growth

  The Rt. Rev. Roger White looks back on decisions that will affect the future.

  Posted on February 20, 2003

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• Bishop Gooden, a Missionary in Latin America, dies at 91

  Before his death from pneumonia in Shreveport, La., on Feb. 11, Bishop Gooden, 91, witnessed the area he once oversaw achieve provincial status within the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on February 20, 2003

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• The Mystery of Love in the Eucharist

  Frequently the busyness of the service, time constraints, perhaps the power of the sermon or the joy of the music overshadow the table event, and it becomes a liturgical afterthought, writes John J. Desaulniers.

  Posted on February 20, 2003

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• Enlightened Survey

  The booklet, A Report on Episcopal Churches in the United States, by C. Kirk Hardaway, gives a fascinating picture of the Episcopal Church, based on a survey of 726 Episcopal churches.

  Posted on February 20, 2003

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• Living Stones

  Peggy Eastman seeks the nearer presence of God by walking in the footsteps of early saints and martyrs in England.

  Posted on February 20, 2003

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• Stem Cell Research Supported

  The Diocese of Mississippi, at convention Feb. 7-9, overwhelmingly called on the Episcopal Church to join with it in advocating wider availability of embryonic stem cells for medical research.

  Posted on February 13, 2003

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• San Diego Sends Words of Caution to General Convention

  Clergy and lay deputies to convention in the Diocese of San Diego cautioned General Convention against acting unilaterally in opposition to the rest of the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on February 13, 2003

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• Lives and Faith of Astronauts Remembered

  Episcopal churches nationwide observed memorial services for the seven Columbia space shuttle astronauts. One of the most poignant occurred at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, also home to a school, where astronaut Laurel Clark’s son Iain is a second grader.

  Posted on February 13, 2003

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• Conference Center Under Consideration for Campus of General Seminary

  The Board of Trustees for the General Theological Seminary has approved in principle a $21 million capital campaign, part of which would be used to create a 60-room, three-star hotel and conference center.

  Posted on February 13, 2003

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