Tag: Dioceses

Church property: let go with love

Episcopal Church leaders from various dioceses tell me that two important reasons for lawsuits to retain title to the property of parishes and dioceses that wish to leave the Church are fairness to the faithful remnant and to deter other parishes from leaving. Neither rationale withstands careful scrutiny from a Christian perspective.

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Venables to visit Fort Worth

Following on earlier news that the constitution and canons of the Southern Cone pose impediments to those who would propose to create US-based affiliates, the

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Schofield tells pastoral visitors to stay out

John-David Schofield has written a letter to the Rev. Canon Brian Cox and the Rev. Canon Robert Moore, warning them that they are not to meddle in the affairs of the diocese. He paints them into a rhetorical corner, saying that if the argument was San Joaquin couldn’t remove itself from the Episcopal Church, that he and the diocese are still in TEC and that the canons’ presence was intrusive–but if they had legitimately left the diocese, then they were still intruding into another province’s diocese.

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