Kathy Blair, Author at Anglican Journal

Motion on same-sex blessing withdrawn

Kathy Blair — Wed, 01 Nov 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Speaker after speaker expressed profound regret that the Cariboo synod had failed to vote on a motion considering blessing the union of same-sex couples. Resolutions on that issue had come to two previous two synods (held every two years), with the last being tabled until this year. That resolution was withdrawn by its mover, Rev. […]

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Cariboo ‘toast,’ synod is told

Kathy Blair — Wed, 01 Nov 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Acutely aware of the eyes of the Canadian Anglican Church and of those of the worldwide communion on what is likely to be their last diocesan synod, Cariboo delegates voted to authorize their bishop and executive council to wind up the diocese in the next 12 months. Bankruptcy is all but inevitable, chancellor Bud Smith, […]

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Diocese of Cariboo plans own shutdown

Kathy Blair — Fri, 01 Sep 2000 04:00:00 +0000

The Diocese of Cariboo is expected to approve a plan to wind itself up during a synod Oct. 13 to 15. The diocese is being bankrupted by residential school lawsuits. It was found jointly liable last year with the national church for 60 per cent of an undisclosed award to a man abused at a […]

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Media spotlight shines on Anglican Church

Kathy Blair — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 04:00:00 +0000

Fredericton Until recently, the Anglican Church of Canada didn’t need to worry much about a communications strategy for the simple reason that the mainstream press didn’t much care what the church was doing. That all changed with the Lytton judgment of August 1999, which found the church and federal government jointly responsible for the sexual […]

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MP raises financial case of churches in House

Kathy Blair — Mon, 01 May 2000 04:00:00 +0000

A New Democratic Member of Parliament has raised in the House of Commons the financial situation of Canada’s Christian churches over the residential schools lawsuits. “Surely it is important to make sure that the churches involved do not go bankrupt or are so severely damaged that much of their social service and social action work […]

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New church for Inuvik

Kathy Blair — Sat, 01 Apr 2000 05:00:00 +0000

The federal government, not aboriginal plaintiffs, is behind many of the residential schools claims facing the Anglican Church. Tony Merchant, a Saskatchewan-based lawyer who represents about half the aboriginal plaintiffs across Canada, says the vast majority of his clients are not interested in suing the churches and did not name them, only the government. Ottawa […]

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Committees to discuss plans for church’s future

Kathy Blair — Tue, 01 Feb 2000 05:00:00 +0000

A year or two ago, in the days before the Lytton judgment, the idea of the General Synod going bankrupt was unthinkable. But as 2000 opens, a new discussion document, Planning for the Future, lists bankruptcy as one of two options facing the national structure. The church’s general secretary, Archdeacon Jim Boyles, says the preferred […]

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Donors to Anglican Church still ready to be generous: consultant

Kathy Blair — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 05:00:00 +0000

Put “money” and the “Anglican Church of Canada” in the same sentence these days and you’re likely to hear something gloomy. But not all the news is bad. In fact, Rev. John Robertson, the national church’s planned giving consultant, is remarkably upbeat, even in the face of dire reports that the church’s financial future may […]

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Collection plate cash won’t go to litigation bills

Kathy Blair — Wed, 01 Dec 1999 05:00:00 +0000

Mississauga Money put in the collection plate this Sunday won’t end up settling a residential schools lawsuit against the church. Legal bills, court costs and damages to settle lawsuits are all being paid from reserves and other assets. For the year 2000, the national church is forecasting a $1-million budget deficit, entirely as a result […]

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Primate alters sabbatical plans in wake of lawsuits

Kathy Blair — Wed, 01 Dec 1999 05:00:00 +0000

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada will spend his sabbatical next year wrestling with how the church should remake itself to cope with life under a cloud of lawsuits. Archbishop Michael Peers told a national meeting of bishops in late October he was changing the focus of his four-month sabbatical that begins in […]

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