The House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada recently met, and issued this Letter to the Church. Earlier the new primate Archbishop Fred Hiltz had visited Lambeth Palace and the Anglican Communion Office. See this report: …Throughout these…
The Diocese of South Carolina announces that it has been notified that a majority of bishops with jurisdiction and a majority of Standing Committees have consented to the election of the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence as the 14th bishop of…
A Christian magistrate who was told he could not opt out of homosexual adoption cases has lost his appeal. Having lost an initial hearing at an employment tribunal in Sheffield earlier in 2007, Mr McClintock took his case against the…
The Ecumenical Health Care Network of the Canadian Council of Churches invites every congregation and community across the country to join in a time of celebration and renewal of Canada’s commitment to ensuring the preservation and strengthening of its universal public health care system, better known as Medicare. To this end, we have named the week of November 18th “Celebrate Medicare Week.”
The following is a message to the people of the Anglican Church of Canada from the House of Bishops, who met this week in London, Ontario:
http://www2.anglican.ca/about/hob/message-2007-10-30.pdf
According to the November issue of the diocesan newspaper, one of the seven parishes that was departing has changed its mind: *LATE BREAKING NEWS: Fr. Holsapple, St. Anne’s, Crystal River, e-mailed Bishop Howe at press time, saying he had reconsidered…
The Sunday Telegraph has a report by Jonathan Wynne-Jones headlined C of E to empower foreign bishops. The Church of England is set to allow foreign archbishops to intervene in its affairs, secret papers reveal. Under controversial plans being drawn…
Following on from here, this week the Church of England issued a press release, Church confirms principles of protocol to review past child protection cases and the press duly reported: Guardian Riazat Butt Church pledges to root out decades-old child…
Mark Vernon writes in the Guardian that seeing scientific knowledge as limitless erodes our capacity for contemplative wonder. Read Face to Faith. Christopher Howse writes in the Daily Telegraph about Women alone in Paris and Mecca. Roderick Strange asks in…
See earlier report here on the proposals for changing the way Crown Appointments are made. The full text of the document is here. The proposals relating to deans start at paragraph 31. Three former deans wrote a letter to The…