News Updates

News Updates

7/13/2005

• Bishops Urge Church to Reject Divestment

  The bishops of Northern Indiana and Rhode Island are calling on Episcopalians to reject proposals for selective divestment of companies that do business with Israel. Executive Council, the legislative body that oversees the Episcopal Church Center budget and implementation of General Convention resolutions when it is not in session, is scheduled to consider the matter when it meets in October.

  Posted on July 13, 2005

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• Connecticut Priests Threatened with Dismissal

  Six rectors in the Diocese of Connecticut, under threat of an April 15 deadline to submit to the Bishop of Connecticut’s plan for Delegated Pastoral Oversight (DEPO) or be dismissed from the ministry of the Episcopal Church, have appealed to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

  Posted on July 13, 2005

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• Retired Bishops Rally Support for Six Connecticut Rectors

  Describing the threat to inhibit six Connecticut clergy for their opposition to the consecration of a homosexual bishop as “unconscionable ecclesiastical tyranny,” six retired bishops have denounced the Rt. Rev. Andrew Smith, Bishop of Connecticut, for what they said was his lack of faith and “uncanonical coercion.”

  Posted on July 13, 2005

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• Disagreement Widens Beyond Connecticut

  While stating that six recusant priests remain under “threat of inhibition,” the Rt. Rev. Andrew D. Smith, Bishop of Connecticut, did not immediately carry out his threat to depose them after an April 18 meeting with the Bishop of Western Massachusetts ended inconclusively after four hours.

  Posted on July 13, 2005

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