His wife, an Episcopal priest, was summoned to the hospital in the middle of services. She agreed to have her husband's organs and tissue harvested for donation. She remembers asking the emergency room doctor whether there was any chance to retrieve her husband's sperm.

"We'd been trying to have a baby," she told the doctor. He said that he'd never heard of such a thing, but was sympathetic and willing to try.

"Every source has fallen somewhat since 2002, with only news on the Internet gaining, from 15 percent [of readers] going there every day two years ago to 20 percent doing so today," reports Editor & Publisher, in their analysis of the Gallup survey.

We restated the mission of FIFNA (which first appeared in the 1997 Good Shepherd Statement) "to secure an orthodox Province."

What shape it takes, who its members are, how it will be governed are questions that cannot be answered. We do know that Christ wills unity amongst his followers. And we know that those who uphold the Gospel and the Catholic religion in the Anglican tradition need to fulfill our Lord’s will for His Church.

And that's where Christmas is actually a bit strange and potentially worrying. When we're invited into the stable to see the child, it's really being invited into the engine room. This is how God works; this is how God is. The entire system of the universe, 'the fire in the equations' as someone wonderfully described it, is contained in this small bundle of shivering flesh.