News Updates

News Updates

9/7/2005

• Manifold Blessings

  Of all the sacraments of the Church, the reconciliation of a penitent (confession) probably is used the least. That is unfortunate, for its blessings can be manifold. Confession can lift burdens from those who are penitent, and it can help us prepare for particularly spiritual times of our lives. (A Living Church editorial)

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• A Matter of Righteousness

  The Episcopal Church’s actions toward Israel constitute a sort of corporate anti-Semitism that overrules whatever personal regard the Church may express toward individual Jews. (By Geoffrey Cheadle)

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• An Insulting Practice

  I have come to the conclusion, despite specific verses to the contrary, that God loves all the people of his creation and saves them to rest in his presence after we die. (By Robert Warren Cromey)

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• Call for Violence Rejected

  The Diocese of Venezuela “rejects all calls to violence,” according to its bishop, the Rt. Rev. Orlando Guerrero, who condemned a televised proposal to resolve disagreements with the Venezuelan government by using the U.S. military to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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• Bishop Moodey Dies at 72

  The Rt. Rev. James Russell Moodey, Bishop of Ohio from 1984 to 1993, died Sept. 5 at his home in Damariscotta, Maine. The cause of death was metastatic kidney failure, a condition with which he was diagnosed 14 years ago. He was 72.

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• GTS: Tower Needed to Survive

  The General Theological Seminary faces a challenging financial future, according to its dean and president, the Very Rev. Ward B. Ewing. He said the seminary needs to generate additional revenue in order to renovate and maintain its landmark Manhattan campus of 19th-century buildings in the square block between 20th and 21st streets and Ninth and 10th avenues known as Chelsea Square.

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• Most New Orleans Parishes Spared Destruction

  As the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina begin to subside from New Orleans, plans for the rebuilding of the Diocese of Louisiana are firmly in hand, according to Ann Ball, director of communication. While the members of the 18 New Orleans parishes are dispersed across the Southeast, many having lost their homes and livelihoods, the flooded parishes may have escaped destruction.

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• Devastated Mississippi Parishes Regroup in Faith

  Many longtime residents of the Mississippi Gulf Coast instinctively head to their church in times of crisis, but for the members at six of the 10 Episcopal churches in the Diocese of Mississippi’s Coastal Convocation, church was a vacant lot where a building was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Services were held Sept. 4 at five of the six churches.

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