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January 16 2008 By virtueonline PITTSBURGH: Attempted Coup to Unseat Bishop Fails

The charges that Bishop Duncan has abandoned the communion simply do not hold up. When he heard the news Duncan said, "Few bishops have been more loyal to the doctrine, discipline and worship of The Episcopal Church. I have not abandoned the Communion of this Church. I will continue to serve and minister as the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh."

January 16 2008 By virtueonline San Joaquin Bishop Fights Back in Verbal Slugfest with the Episcopal Church

"Here I am standing up for the Bible and for the morality that comes out of the Bible and I am the one being inhibited and he [Gene Robinson] is the one being celebrated," said Schofield on public television recently. He acknowledged the potential lawsuits that will undoubtedly follow.

"This is an attempt to grab property, money and power. I think Jesus gets lost in all of that," he said.

January 16 2008 By virtueonline NEVADA: Religious Leaders of Multiple Religions Bless New Episcopal Bishop

During the interfaith blessing of his new Episcopal ministry, (the Litany was written by Edwards) the bishop sat on a chair below the podium to receive the blessings in a ceremony held at the Henderson Convention Center.

January 15 2008 By virtueonline PUERTO RICO: Epis. Bishop Opposes Legislation Establishing Heterosexual Marriage

A huge Evangelical sector also backs the bill, according to Dr. Dennis Paris an Anglican priest, Psychologist and Professor at the University of Puerto Rico.

"Alvarez believes the Civil Cod, and not the churches, should decide the social order and he has branded evangelicals and other groups who oppose his position as fundamentalists", Paris told VirtueOnline.

January 15 2008 By virtueonline Diocese of Florida Reveals Names of Inhibited Clergy

The Rev. David C. Allert, Priest
The Rev. Charles S. Bailey, Deacon
The Rev. Gary R. Blaylock, Priest
The Rev. Charles H. Coit, Priest
The Rev. Gilbert T. Crosby, Priest
The Rev. Mark R. Eldredge, Priest
The Rev. Mark Travis Greenman, Priest
The Rev. Edwin C. Griswold, Priest
The Rev. George W. Hall, Jr., Priest
The Rev. Harald K. Haugan, Priest
The Rev. Dorothy Head, Deacon
The Rev. James L. Hobby, Priest

January 14 2008 By virtueonline SEATTLE: Homosexual Dean in Hot Water over Cathedral Layoffs

Letters obtained by VirtueOnline revealed "significant leadership and management issues that need to be addressed in a timely and comprehensive manner". As a result, the vestry adopted a Resolution asking that Olympia Bishop Greg Rickel appoint an independent party to assess leadership and management issues at the Cathedral.

January 13 2008 By virtueonline Southern Cone Archbishop Says San Joaquin Bishop is Under His Authority

In a statement on Bishop Schofield's inhibition, the Bishop of Fort Worth, Jack Leo Iker said this, "It comes as no surprise that the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church has initiated canonical actions against the Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield to remove him from office.

January 09 2008 By virtueonline TENNESSEE: Two Churches Leave The Episcopal Church -- Scripture and Sodomy Cited

A Windsor Bishop, (an ecclesiastically neutered group that promised much and delivered little), Bauerschmidt joins the ranks of institutional team players who are watching, with apprehension, his diocese and church wither under the glare of biblical orthodoxy, primatial opprobrium and fleeing Episcopalians.

January 07 2008 By virtueonline Can Rowan Williams Save the Anglican Communion?

As his popularity rose among conservatives, both here and abroad, it diminished with institutionalists and some orthodox theologians who labeled him a reactionary on the "radical evangelical wing" within the communion as one theologian put it, but who did not speak for the vast masses of Anglicans worldwide.

January 04 2008 By virtueonline Diocese of Virginia in Financial Crunch Over Law Suits

In addition, the Executive Board of the Diocese of Virginia authorized diocesan staff to plan "the sale of non-strategic diocesan real property" to raise needed cash.

The Diocese also revealed that nine churches have not paid any of their pledges, which Mike Kerr, Treasurer of the Diocese, estimated as a loss to the diocese of $50,000. In addition, other churches have not paid their pledges in full causing the diocese to run a deficit of expenses over income from those pledges.

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