Solange DeSantis

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    Solange De Santis was a reporter for the Anglican Journal from 2000 to 2008.

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Bishops admit division on same-sex issue

Bishop Don Phillips of Rupert’s Land talks to Bishop Victoria Matthews of Edmonton. Mississauga, Ont. Canadian Anglican bishops, at their regular fall meeting, acknowledged they

Cabinet OKs church offer

Archdeacon Jim Boyles (left), general secretary of General Synod, Archbishop Michael Peers, the primate, and Public Works Minister Ralph Goodale announce an agreement to limit

Ottawa synod delays same-sex discussion

Ottawa Four months after the diocese of New Westminster voted to permit a formal blessing ceremony for homosexual couples, Ottawa is the second Canadian Anglican

Cabinet OKs church offer

The federal cabinet has approved an agreement with the Anglican Church of Canada that will limit the church’s liability over Indian residential schools. Public Works

Agreement with Ottawa still in the works

Negotiators for the Anglican Church of Canada and the federal government continued in September to refine an agreement that would limit the church?s liability concerning

New West reduces GS funds

New Westminster has cut contributions to General Synod in the wake of a shortfall of funds caused by the refusal of eight parishes to contribute

Shingwauk: A reunion with a difference

Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. In some ways, the fifth reunion of former students of the Shingwauk Indian Residential School, held here in August, was like

Agreement with Ottawa drafted

Government and church negotiators have drawn up a 29-page draft agreement on limiting church liability concerning Indian residential schools, but a final agreement has not

Optimism cited in negotiations

Negotiations between the Anglican church and the federal government over the residential schools crisis continued this summer, with “resolution on many aspects of an eventual

New direction for Foundation?

Should the Anglican Foundation, which has been disbursing project grants to Canadian parishes since 1957, build loos or lives? Should it support bricks and mortar

Ottawa may consider same-sex blessings

Ottawa is expected to be the next Anglican diocese in Canada to consider allowing parishes to bless same-sex relationships, after the diocese of New Westminster

Anglicans urged to host youth

Anglican and Roman Catholic leaders in Toronto met in April and May to discuss ways Anglicans can participate in World Youth Day, a major Catholic

The lasting impact of the Jim Ferry case

Archbishop Terry Finlay. In the 10 years since Rev. Jim Ferry was fired for maintaining a homosexual relationship, issues involving homosexual Anglicans have arisen many

Team translates Bible into Inuktitut

Bible translation team: Jonas Allooloo, Benjamin Arreak, Andrew Atagotaaluk and Joshua Arreak. The Canadian Bible Society, working with a translation team of Inuit Anglican clergy,

Primates tackle issues on AIDS pandemic

Anglican primates gather in a table group during their annual meeting in Canterbury in April. Thirty-five of the Anglican Communion’s 38 national leaders attended the

Pact foreseen ‘in a few months’

Mississauga, Ont. Jack Stagg, the deputy minister leading the federal government’s residential schools negotiating team, says he hopes the two sides can soon reach agreement.

No progress reported in talks with government

Negotiations with the federal government concerning the native residential schools crisis continued in March and April, but no progress was reported. Anglican negotiators, including General

B.C. bishops call for referendum protest

Christian leaders in British Columbia – including the bishops of all Anglican dioceses in the province – are urging parishioners to vote against or protest

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