The diocese of New Westminster’s annual synod this month will again consider whether to ask Bishop Michael Ingham to allow the blessing in church of
AT A RECENT bishops’ meeting near Toronto, irrepressible Bishop Ann Tottenham of Toronto, explaining she was “dead keen on Lutherans,” asked whether Anglicans couldn’t do
Mother and child wait at a church-run feeding centre in April in Jebel Aulia displaced persons camp outside Khartoum, Sudan. A group of Canadian church
Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and her husband, writer John Ralston Saul, will share their perspectives as Anglicans, national figures and husband and wife at the
Donations to the national church’s main appeal declined, but givings to its relief and development agency were up in 2000. Officials at the Anglican Appeal
Archdeacon Portman: a writerly priest with ink still in his pen. When Archdeacon William Gordon Portman, generally known as Bill, attends General Synod 2001 as
Bishop Leonard Whitten In the course of being interviewed for this profile of the diocese of Western Newfoundland, Bishop Leonard Whitten summed up the diocese
Church leaders met in March with Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray and his aides – another in a series of meetings aimed at resolving the
The possibility that the Anglican Church of Canada might have to pay Ottawa $95 million to be released from residential schools claims has at least
Council of General Synod members meeting in Mississauga, Ont., share a light moment during a break in the proceedings. Mississauga, Ont. Should the Anglican Church
Mississauga, Ont. The national church’s financial situation continues to deteriorate as talks with the federal government about the residential schools crisis move at a disappointingly
The 21st century’s first General Synod will consider the future of the Anglican Church of Canada in light of the residential schools crisis, relations with
Thirty-four of the Anglican Communion’s 38 primates gathered at the Kanuga Conference Centre in North Carolina last month. As at their meeting last year, homosexuality
The residential schools crisis has moved closer to resolution with reports that the federal government is considering assuming at least $2 billion in legal costs
SASKATOON doesn’t cover a particularly large area, compared to some of its fellow dioceses, but one of Archbishop Thomas Morgan’s toughest challenges has been creating
AFN Leader Matthew Conn Come Matthew Coon Come, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), has signed an ecumenical petition calling upon the
The Anglican cathedral in the Sudanese city of Lui was destroyed in a government aerial attack on December 29. Lui Bishop Bullen A. Dolli said
Canadian writer Kildare Dobbs Toronto One of Canada’s most distinguished writers, Kildare Dobbs, has a significant connection to the Anglican church and explores spiritual themes
Waterloo, Ont. DELEGATES and staff traveling to Waterloo, Ont. for the 36th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada will be entering Lutheran country,
Toronto Anticipating possible change in the structure of the national church, the four ecclesiastical provinces have agreed to continue the canons, or laws, of the