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December 12 2005 By virtueonline BELFAST: This Life: Married to equality. Eames speaks out

Love is often regarded as a matter for the heart, but those in long-term relationships soon come to realise that behind every happy liaison lie boring but essential agreements over property and finance.

Sadly, some of the bitterest and most expensive legal wrangles occur when the love relationship breaks down and hard-headed financial considerations take over.

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December 10 2005 By virtueonline NEWARK, NJ: Episcopalians face up to decline

"Many congregations are struggling," the report said. "A significant number have been incurring operating deficits, and some are in fear for their very existence."

The 47-page profile, titled "Signs of Grace," aims, in part, to serve as a guidepost for clergy and lay people involved in the search to replace Bishop John P. Croneberger, who will retire at the beginning of 2007.

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December 10 2005 By virtueonline BAHAMAS: Archbishop Drexel Gomez To Demit Office

Seventy-two is also the retirement age for the Bishop in Jamaica, although in this case, there is a provision for an extension under certain circumstances.

And, having retired as Diocesan Bishop, it is mandatory that Archbishop Gomez also demit office as Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Province of the West Indies.

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December 09 2005 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Canon joins same-sex partnership

Canon Davies, who has been Precentor for 20 years, and Mr McEnery met 18 years ago at a party in Canon Davies’s house in the cathedral close. Mr McEnery, 41, moved in shortly afterwards. Initial plans for a religious service were dropped out of respect for church sensitivities. Clergy who register civil partnerships have to give their bishop assurances that their relationship is celibate.

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Vicar's gay 'marriage' to have church blessing

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December 07 2005 By virtueonline ENGLAND: Former Bishop of Durham gives backing to clergy civil partnership

Bishops have also ruled that gay couples cannot have their civil union blessed in church. Although Bishop Jenkins is only backing the blessing in his church sermon, many will still see this as crossing the boundaries of what is acceptable in the eyes of bishops. He did express his desire to give a full blessing when the right opportunity arose. While whipping up fresh debate over civil partnerships, the move is likely to enrage traditionalists.

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December 07 2005 By virtueonline CANADA: House of Bishops debate freedom of speech and assembly

Claiming Essentials supporters have no respect for "those in authority over them", Njegovan has banned the distribution of Essentials materials in his churches, along with the independent Anglican Planet newspaper, even though it is not an Essentials publication. Essentials is made up of both a Federation and a Network. Jim Cowan, Bishop of British Columbia [Vancouver Island] was particularly concerned about the Network.

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December 07 2005 By virtueonline NEWARK, NJ: Former N.J. Governor McGreevey embraces the Episcopal Church

McGreevey, a Rahway resident, would not say whether his attendance at the two Episcopal churches signaled a break from the Roman Catholic Church, and he declined to answer additional questions posed by a reporter. Advertisement

"I'm just here to support a good cause tonight," he said.

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December 06 2005 By virtueonline VANCOUVER, BC: Priest dying of AIDS pleads for new drug

Forshaw joined celebrity B.C. artist Tiko Kerr in pleading with Health Canada to release two new drugs under a program that is supposed to provide access on a "compassionate" basis to desperate, dying Canadians who are seeking drugs unavailable in Canada.

Health Canada, despite the objections of Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, has refused to make the program available because the drugs are deemed too experimental and, taken together, might pose a health risk to the dying men.

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December 06 2005 By virtueonline JACKSONVILLE, FL: Church negotiates for its future -- and its campus

"I know it's materialistic, but I hate to leave this place. I was baptized here. I got married here. My son was baptized here," said Masterson, 34, who named her baby girl Jillian Grace in honor of her beloved church. "It's sad. It's awful."

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December 05 2005 By virtueonline JACKSONVILLE, FL: Episcopalians rekindle church at site where congregation left

"Our business is to provide locations for people to meet Jesus Christ," said the Rev. Canon Kurt Dunkle, the chief of staff for Bishop John Howard. "So it was vitally important for that location to be reopened and energized for that purpose."

The Rev. David Sandifer and approximately 160 members of Calvary Church left their building and the diocese following the years of tension sparked when the Episcopal Church USA elected an openly gay bishop for New Hampshire in 2003.

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