News Updates

News Updates

1/23/2004

• Pilgrim or Tourist?

  It isn’t so much where one goes as why, in what frame of mind, and, perhaps, with whom, that differentiates the pilgrim from the tourist. For the pilgrim, the journey itself is often more important than the arrival. (By Patricia Nakamura)

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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• Personal Journeys

  Pilgrimage visits to sacred places never really end, but continue to bear fruit long afterwards. (By Irma M. Wyman)

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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• El Camino Real: A Bellwether of the Episcopal Church?

  The Diocese of El Camino Real is a sick place. Before its next episcopal election, the diocese needs to take time to ponder the multiple causes of past failures and lousy behavior in order to make appropriate changes. (By George S. Lockwood)

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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• Southern Cone Distances Itself from Episcopal Church

  The Province of the Southern Cone, the Anglican Church for the southern half of South America, has declared itself to be in a state of “impaired Communion” with the Episcopal Church and has taken the further step of planting two new congregations in the metropolitan Atlanta area. The churches are led by former Episcopal priests and composed primarily of former Episcopalians.

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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• Archbishop Gomez Urges Trust in the Eames Commission

  The Anglican Communion is currently in a state of transition, from one of talking about homosexuality to one which may lead to canonically lawful means of disciplining provinces that stray beyond the definable boundaries of diversity, according to the Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, primate of the West Indies.

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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• AAC Continues Call to Stand Firm

  More than 3,000 Episcopalians came together in Woodbridge, Va., on Jan. 9-10 for praise, worship and to hear a plea to stay and work for reform and renewal from within the church.

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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• Lambeth Releases Report of Its Legal Advisors

  Lambeth Palace has released one of the key documents used last fall at the emergency primates’ meeting. A Legal Advisor’s Report, written by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s chancellor, the Rev. John Rees, and presented to the primates on Oct. 15, states there is currently no canonical solution to the threatened unraveling of the Anglican Communion.

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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• Lexington Bishop Dismisses Parish Leadership

  An already strained pastoral relationship between the Bishop of Lexington and the lay leadership at one of the diocese’s oldest parishes worsened in January to the point where the Rt. Rev. Stacy Sauls downgraded the parish to mission status and removed the lay leadership.

  Posted on January 23, 2004

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