Harvey Shepherd

  • Harvey Shepherd

    Harvey Shepherd is a freelance journalist in Montreal.

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(L to R): Federal opposition leader Thomas Mulcair, Diocese of Montreal Bishop Barry Clarke, Khurshid Begum Awan, Khurshid Begum AwanFarha Najah Hussain, and Tahira Malik.

Mulcair meets refugee in sanctuary

Almost six months after taking refuge in a Montreal Anglican church to escape deportation, an ailing Pakistani woman met federal opposition leader Thomas Mulcair there Feb.14 and appealed for justice and immediate freedom.

APCI delegates to Montreal greet their bishop and fellow B.C. Anglicans back in 100 Mile House by Skype. From left: Carmen Fairley, Betty-May Gore, Laura Suchell and Capt. Rev. Isabel Healy-Morrow. Photo contributed.

Innovative partnership goes high-tech

An already innovative partnership linking two parts of the Anglican Church of Canada has added a new, high-tech wrinkle. A covenant that has linked the

“Religion, faith and symbols are ways in which we express our beliefs,” and are necessary for people to learn to live in a just and free society, says the Anglican bishop of Montreal, Barry Clarke. Image: Basheera Designs/Shutterstock

Bishop: Quebec charter may foster racism

The Quebec government’s proposals for a Charter of Quebec Values appear “on first reflection” to contradict the existing the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms as well as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, says the Anglican bishop of Montreal.

(L to R) The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton, general secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches, and the Rev. Dr. Ellen Aitken, dean of religious studies at McGill University. Photo: Harvey Shepherd

Montreal conference grapples with the secular

Dating from the 1930s, the Gothic design of the Birks Heritage Chapel in the building that now houses the McGill University Faculty of Religious Studies is dominated by a huge stained glass window depicting the Ascension. Its several panels are divided and supported by a lattice or framework.

More budget woes

Despite efforts to balance its budget, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada continues to face financial difficulties. At the September synod of

Archdeacon Michael Johnson presents unsuccessful motion calling for synods to be every two years rather than annual. Photo: Harvey Shepherd

Annual Montreal synod stays

The annual synod of the Anglican diocese of Montreal will remain annual. In show-of-hands votes, delegates to the synod voted Friday to reject a proposal

Archbishop Fred Hiltz presides over a eucharist at the synod of the ecclesiastical Province of Canada, made up of seven dioceses in Atlantic Canada and Quebec. Photo: Harvey Shepherd

Church structures under review…again

MONTREAL-Despite efforts to balance its budget the national synod of the Anglican Church of Canada was running about $900,000 in the red at the end

Bishop of Montreal warns fellow Anglicans to avoid extreme language following Quebec election. Photo: Art Babych

‘Now we pray for Pauline Marois’

The Anglican Bishop of Montreal has called on Anglicans in his diocese, still predominantly English-speaking, to avoid intemperate language and fear-mongering in response to the

Shared episcopal ministry

Photo: Harvey Shepherd Bishop Leonard Whitten, former bishop of Western Newfoundland, cuts the traditional cake in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Pointe

ARC dialogue moves forward

Prospects for better understanding between Anglicans and Roman Catholics in Canada may not seem as bright in some ways as they did 40 years ago,

Photo: Harvey Shepherd

Shared episcopal ministry

Bishop Leonard Whitten, former bishop of Western Newfoundland, cuts the traditional cake in the Church of St. John the Baptist in Pointe Claire, Quebec, after

(L to R): Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Dowd and diocese of Montreal Anglican Bishop Barry Clarke at a worship service at St. Joseph's Oratory. Photo: Harvey Shepherd

ARC dialogue moves forward

Prospects for better understanding between Anglicans and Roman Catholics in Canada may not seem as bright in some ways as they did 40 years ago,

Archbishop Fred Hiltz paid tribute to the Anglo-Catholic tradition at a "pontifical high mass" in Montreal's Church of St. John the Evangelist. Photo: Harvey Shepherd

Primate pays tribute at high mass

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, paid tribute to the Anglo-Catholic tradition Tuesday, Nov. 1, when he presided at a “pontifical

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