News Updates

News Updates

2/28/2005

• Time For Listening

  In place of its regularly scheduled annual convention, the Diocese of Florida held a convocation “for conversation, prayer and corporate discernment” Jan. 27-29 at St. John’s Cathedral in Jacksonville. The convocation began with a Eucharist which included...

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• Whatever Happened to Hell?

  What we crave, more than guesswork, is the confidence that good things really do lie in store. And this is precisely what is granted us at Easter. (By Harold R. Brumbaum)

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• Valuable Leaders

  Two of the Episcopal Church’s most effective leaders are retiring this month, having completed some exemplary ministries at the Episcopal Church Center. The Rev. Canon Patrick Mauney, director of Anglican and Global Relations, is retiring after 22 years at the Church Center, and Sandra Swan, president of Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD), also is stepping aside.

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• Optional Psalm Verses

  In the parish where I read the offices, the optional verses are always omitted. The idea of removing “imprecatory psalms” is fairly obvious. Unfortunately, on occasion some wonderful verses become the casualties of such excising. (By David Kalvelage)

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• Primates Engage in ‘Intense’ Discussions

  Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold defended the Episcopal Church against sharp criticism from a coalition of Anglican archbishops during what has been described as “intense talks” from the first two days of the primates’ meeting Feb. 21-25 in Northern...

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• Church of England Takes Step Toward Women Bishops

  A resolution to receive and commend the Windsor Report, and to support the Archbishop of Canterbury at the primates’ meeting in Northern Ireland was adopted by a large majority on Feb. 17, the final day of the Church of England’s General Synod...

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• Rosemont Priest Becomes a Bishop

  The Rev. David L. Moyer, rector of Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, Pa., was consecrated as a Bishop Suffragan for the Armed Forces in the Anglican Church in America, a jurisdiction of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), on Feb. 16 at Good...

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• Expansion and Updates Overdue at National Archives

  Last fall, around the same time the national Executive Council approved a $25,000 architectural study for the Archives of the Episcopal Church, Patrick Duffy, its director, stopped by the facility located on the grounds of the Episcopal Theological Seminary...

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• "Facing the Elephant" in Georgia

  After much discussion and parliamentary maneuvering, the convention of the Diocese of Georgia finally tabled a measure that would amend the current canon, Title IV, Canon 1 regarding sexual behavior of aspirants, postulants and those accepted to holy...

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• ECUSA asked to withdraw ACC representatives

  Many Episcopalians returned to work today still pondering the communiqué from the Primates’ Meeting that concluded Feb. 25 in Northern Ireland. The detailed, five-page statement recognizes, among other things, that the Episcopal Church needs more time...

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