Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis, Indiana, and Trinity Wall Street in New York have announced a $500,000 joint matching gift to the Episcopal Church’s Rebuild Our Church in Haiti appeal. The grant, meant as a challenge to other congregations involved in the campaign to fund reconstruction of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Now “booty,” a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the “spoils” of war when the newest edition of the New American Bible, the English-language Catholic Bible, comes out on Ash Wednesday, March 9.
Sometimes we put someone in a position and leave them there until they are used up. When volunteers are excited about doing good work for God, they begin like a freshly struck match. Their flame and energy are intense. Too often, though, we leave them burning in one spot for so long that their flame can sputter and die. Expiration dates can protect us from burning out volunteers.
The Office of Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has notified the Diocese of Northern Michigan that Bishop-Elect Rayford Ray has received the required majority of consents in the canonical consent process.
What is the effect of globalization on the moral circle? Does trade melt barriers and expand the moral circle or does globalization make “the other” a more salient division allowing politicians to demonize and control through xenophobia?
It is with the greatest shock and sorrow that we have heard of the assassination of Mr Shahbaz Bhatti, Minister for Religious Minorities in Pakistan. This further instance of sectarian bigotry and violence will increase anxiety worldwide about the security of Christians and other religious minorities in Pakistan, and we urge that the Government of Pakistan will do all in its power to bring to justice those guilty of such crimes and to give adequate protection to minorities.
I have been asked to bless . . . undertakers’ offices, local and county councils, a church toilet, pilgrims, new babies, gardens, a shoe shop, the dying, pets . . . why is the C of E leadership seeming to be so unwilling to allow clergy to bless civil partnerships?
Theodore visited all the island, wherever the tribes of the Angles inhabited, for he was willingly entertained and heard by all persons; and everywhere attended and assisted by Hadrian, he taught the right rule of life, and the canonical custom of celebrating Easter. It was the first archbishop whom all the English church obeyed