The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has upheld an Allegheny Common Pleas decision awarding centrally held property of the Episcopal diocese that split in 2008 to the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh rather than to the rival Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh. About $20 million in endowment funds and other assets is at stake.
We, again, urge the Ugandan police to conduct a complete and thorough investigation. Appearances are that they were hasty in ruling out Kato’s sexuality or his activism as a motive, and that they have focused their attention on one suspect to the exclusion of others.
To us, with our feelings and associations, such discourses as these of Bishop Meade appear hard-hearted and unfeeling to the last degree. We should, however, do great injustice to the character of the man, if we supposed that they prove him to have been such. They merely go to show how perfectly use may familiarize amiable and estimable men with a system of oppression, till they shall have lost all consciousness of the wrong which it involves.
The Anglican Church of Uganda sent a lay reader to lead the Friday funeral of slain gay rights activist David Kato. He proceeded to launch
Mark Ralls writes that Christians surrender the vocabulary of evil at our peril.
You don’t have to agree with everything Stephen Steinberg writes to find plenty to engage with:
Senior bishops from Anglican churches worldwide are in Dublin and “needed to assume their responsibilities in tackling homophobia and the churches collusion in it”. Henry Orombi of the Church of the Province of Uganda is among the primates of the Anglican Communion who have boycotted the meeting because punishment of the gay-friendly Episcopal Church is not on the agenda.
If you stop being an Episcopalian, you can be a PC or a Mac. By the same token, if you’re a PC you can be an Episcopalian. We are you.
The length of primatial service varies across the Communion between two years renewable, and serving until retirement. Whereas in some Provinces the Primate can veto a synodical decision (after consultation with the Council/House of Bishops), in other Provinces the Primate needs permission from the bishop before even travelling to that bishop’s diocese.
This crime is a reminder of the heroic generosity of the people who advocate for and defend human rights on behalf of the rest of us — and the sacrifices they make. And as we reflect on his life, it is also an occasion to reaffirm that human rights apply to everyone, no exceptions, and that the human rights of LGBT individuals cannot be separated from the human rights of all persons.