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July 22 2004
UTAH: Where Has All The Money Gone?
Under the somewhat complicated terms of the Trust Agreement, the Trust is able to distribute about 5% of its assets to the diocese in any one calendar year. In 2003, this distribution amounted to $5,521,603. In 2004, the budgeted distribution is $5,267,655, a drop of just under five percent. Combined with other revenue shortfalls, total diocesan income in 2004 is projected to decline six percent from 2003.
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July 22 2004
CHURCH OF ENGLAND: Days of bishops and castles nearing end
The Bishop described his present home, which is valued at £1 million, as "delightful", but admitted that it was too large and costly to heat and had extensive grounds that meant paying and housing a full-time gardener.
He is not alone in his desire to "downsize" and his move comes amid a review of bishops' palaces and houses by their landlords, the Church Commissioners, which is expected to result in a number of sales.
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July 22 2004
Black Americans almost uniformly oppose homosexual 'marriage'
Black Americans tend to be liberal politically. They are the most reliable components of the Democratic Party's base, with the possible exception of gays, whose causes Democrats and liberals are championing. And yet, black Americans are among the demographic groups most opposed to gay marriage.
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July 20 2004
Survey finds Protestants poised to lose their majority in U.S.
The study was based on three decades of religious identification questions in the General Social Survey, which the opinion center conducts to measure public trends.
The United States "has been seen as white and Protestant," said Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey. "We're not going to be majority Protestant any longer."
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July 20 2004
ENGLAND: Bishops plan his and hers Church
He has privately won support from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who agrees the options facing the Church are limited.
Both are worried that more than 300 traditionalist clergy could quit in
protest, potentially costing tens of millions of pounds in hardship payments to those who leave.
July 20 2004
SACRAMENTO: Bishop calls for Open Communion Survey for ECUSA
More and more of the churches in the Diocese of Northern California are adopting the custom of Open Communion or as our Task Force describes it, “Administering the Sacrament of the Eucharist to Those Who Have Not Been Baptized”. I have been issuing a carefully worded open invitation at Confirmations and other major events in the Diocese. At our last Diocesan Convention in November of 2003, a Resolution was put forth to prohibit this custom.
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July 20 2004
MILWAUKEE: Priest forms new Episcopal parish
"There was a group of people who have felt abandoned by the Episcopal Church, as I do," said Wilson, who had been filling in for parish priests. "I am part time, but we needed to start something permanent to get people an alternative.
"I don't care what the package looks like. I'm much more concerned with the present inside. The Episcopal Church seems to have kept the trappings, the package, but they've thrown out Jesus and the Bible, as far as what I can see."
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July 17 2004
CONNECTICUT: Six Episcopal Parishes Seek Conservative Ties
This week, priests from the six churches - Christ Church in Watertown, St. John's Church in Bristol, St. Paul's Church in Darien, Trinity Church in Bristol, Christ & The Epiphany Church in East Haven, and Bishop of Seabury Church in Groton - each received a "pastoral directive" and were summoned by registered letter to meet with Smith.
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July 17 2004
DUBLIN: Primates to meet in County Down, Ireland in Feb, 2005
The historic Primates Meeting in Newcastle is likely to be one of the most significant Church gatherings to take place in Northern Ireland, with its outcome charting the way forward for the future of the entire Anglican Church, which has some 70 million members around the world.
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July 16 2004
LONDON: Largest diocese leads revolt over Church funding
The development, which will alarm the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, follows a 28 per cent jump in the amount that the diocese has been asked to contribute.
The Bishop of Willesden, the Rt Rev Peter Broadbent, who is leading the
London diocese's campaign, said the Church needed to carry out a
fundamental independent review of its bureaucracy and make significant cuts.
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