News Updates

News Updates

10/31/2007

• Canadian Bishops: No Change on Blessings

  In its first meeting since last summer’s General Synod passed legislation that same-sex blessings were not core doctrine, but then failed to give approval for dioceses to implement them, the Canadian House of Bishops stated that their position has not significantly changed from their pastoral statement last April when they said they could not advise proceeding with same-sex blessings.

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• Promising Results for Florida's Faith-Based Prison Ministry

  The Diocese of Florida has welcomed an independent report on the state’s faith and character-based prisons that found that prison ministry is an effective tool in turning around the lives of inmates.

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• PHOTO 31Oct2007

  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori knocks on the door to Christ Church, Kent Island, Stevensville, Md., at an Oct. 13 sanctuary dedication ceremony. Deacon Melody Sutherland assists. (Lynn Anstatt photo)

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• Central Florida Proposes Departure Protocol

  A decision to sell parochial property is one that must be made by the continuing Episcopalian members of a congregation where a vote to disaffiliate has been taken under a proposal announced by Bishop John W. Howe of Central Florida during the annual clergy conference, held Oct. 22-23 at Canterbury Retreat and Conference Center.

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• Bishop of Pennsylvania Inhibited; Trial Pending

  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on Oct. 31 inhibited Bishop Charles E. Bennison of Pennsylvania pending a judgment of the Court for the Trial of a Bishop. The Title IV Review Committee issued a two-count presentment for conduct unbecoming a member of the clergy on Oct. 28. The two counts of the presentment center on accusations involving his brother who was serving as an assistant at the California parish where Bishop Bennison was rector.

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• Presiding Bishop Warns Network Bishops About Disaffiliation

  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has made public a letter of warning she sent earlier this evening to Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh who she accuses of using his diocesan convention to disaffiliate legally from The Episcopal Church. “I call upon you to recede from this direction and to lead your diocese on a new course that recognizes the interdependent and hierarchical relationship between the national Church and its dioceses and parishes,” Bishop Jefferts Schori wrote adding that she would seek to put Bishop Duncan on trial before the House of Bishops if he failed to heed her warning. Letters to other bishops seeking similar changes from their convention are to follow, according to Episcopal News Service.

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