Despite the high-profile controversy over church-run native residential schools in the last decade, it seems that certain quarters in the church still have some lessons
Archbishop Fred Hiltz will travel to England’s Lambeth Palace where he will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Oct. 16, his first
The diocese of Ottawa’s regularly scheduled synod will decide Oct. 12-13 whether to request its bishop to grant permission for clergy to bless same-sex relationships.
Former Anglican priest Ralph Rowe on July 6 was convicted of additional charges of sexual abuse against boys and sentenced by a judge in Kenora
The bishop of Niagara, Ralph Spence, has been appointed chancellor of Renison College, University of Waterloo. Bishop Spence, who has announced his retirement as diocesan
Los AngelesThe archdiocese of Los Angeles’ agreement to a $660 million US clergy abuse settlement will amount to $1.3 million for each plaintiff, and it
Churches must begin preparing for the influenza pandemic that the World Health Organization warns will occur in just a matter of time, said a panel
The news came as a complete surprise to many church observers: Victoria Matthews, the bishop of Edmonton and the first woman to be elected to
The general secretary’s office of the Anglican Church of Canada has nominated J. Rick Ponting, professor emeritus (sociology) of the University of Calgary, to the
BaghdadAn Anglican vicar who was working to secure the release of five British hostages in Iraq fled the country on July 11 after being denounced
An art historian has confirmed that a painting at St. Alban’s Cathedral in Prince Albert, Sask., is one of the few surviving paintings of British
The Tsimshian wooden mask, part of the Dundas Collection of First Nations artifacts, has rolling eyes and an articulated beak. The Dundas Collection, featuring First
All Saints Anglican church in Mission, B.C., diocese of New Westminster, is now the first church in the country to have photovoltaic solar panels on
Generation 2008, a five-day national forum “to renew, equip and empower” Canadian-Anglicans who are engaged in ministry with youth, will be accepting registrations in October
The Vatican caused a bit of a stir in the otherwise quiet summer by issuing two statements that gave some readers concern that the reforms
Faith and the Common Good (FCG), a national organization that encourages inter-faith action on social and environmental concerns, has recently received funding from the Ontario
Bishop Caleb Lawrence, of the diocese of Moosonee, announced recently that Canon Sharon Murdoch had been appointed rector of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Timmins, Ont.
“Today, I am feeling Saturday-after-a-week-of-radiation weary. I am also feeling gratitude. I’m grateful for glimpses of grace on city streets and beneath red maples. Grateful
The Anglican Journal wants to showcase the best of its readers’ photographs through its Web site, anglicanjournal.com. Each month, the Journal will invite submissions based
MinneapolisAn interfaith service of healing was held Aug. 5 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis after the collapse on Aug. 1 of the Interstate