Armstrong still must appear today and Friday, Feb. 24 and 25, for a sentencing hearing before District Judge Gregory Werner, who could accept all or part of the plea bargain while also determining possible fines, restitution, and either the recommended four-year probation or possible incarceration. Meanwhile, in addition to that $291,000, Grace Episcopal is seeking a further $1 million in restitution.
At least 65 people are reported to have died, while others are trapped in the debris of ruined buildings. One of the badly damaged buildings was Christchurch Cathedral.
The Dean, Peter Beck, speaking to BBC 5 live, said the tower has collapsed, and he fears people may have been inside.
Thanks to some good work by Mark Harris and his correspondents, it became clear over the weekend that the Rev. Julian Linnell, a member of the Evangelism and Church Growth Initiative (ECGI), is a priest in Bob Duncan’s schismatic Anglican Church in North America.
Does the Nippon Sei Ko Kai support the Anglican Covenant or not? The answer may be in the eye of the beholder.
Primates were elected as members of the Primates’ Standing Committee at the recent Primates’ Meeting in Dublin, Ireland and have agreed to serve.
The primates’ meeting is relatively new – when I was a child, there was no such thing. That was a time when ordinary people’s views were valued in church and society. The 1968 Lambeth Conference recommended “that no major issue in the life of the church should be decided without the full participation of the laity in discussion and in decision”.
The Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, will on Wednesday, begin a three-day pastoral visit to the United Kingdom during which he will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
It seems to me that Rowan Williams is making slow but significant progress toward assembling a center that he can then play off against the left (constituted by us, the Brazilians, the Scots and maybe the Welsh) and the right (constituted by Nigeria, Uganda, the Southern Cone and a few others.)
The Anglican Communion Office has at last responded to a letter that the Rev. Lesley Fellows of the No Anglican Covenant Coalition sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury more than two months ago–if you can call a perfunctory reiteration of evasive boilerplate a response.
A spokesman for the Anglican Communion Office told CEN “Canon Prof McIntosh is a canon residentiary of Durham and is licensed as a priest in the Church of England. So he is not prevented from being a member of Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission.” (Even though he is American and authored “To Set Our Hope on Christ.”)