
Church appraises episcopal visitor
The arrangement made by the diocese of New Westminster to provide pastoral care through an episcopal visitor to churches opposed to same-sex blessings has worked
Marites (Tess) Sison was editor of the Anglican Journal from August 2014 to July 2018, and senior staff writer from December 2003 to July 2014. An award-winning journalist, she has more that three decades of professional journalism experience in Canada and overseas. She has contributed to The Toronto Star and CBC Radio, and worked as a stringer for The New York Times.

The arrangement made by the diocese of New Westminster to provide pastoral care through an episcopal visitor to churches opposed to same-sex blessings has worked

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When her husband, Andrew Hutchison, became bishop of Montreal in 1990, Lois Hutchison said he suggested she might want to resign as secretary to the

St. Catharines, Ont. Archbishop Andrew Hutchison of Montreal was elected the 12th primate of the Anglican Church of Canada today by lay and clergy delegates

Gail Holland (left) is a refugee co-ordinator for Holy Trinity church, Toronto. Her parish recently helped settle Joseph and Esperance Mbazimana, their two children and

A Canadian delegation of church leaders and staff that recently visited Israel and Lebanon has vowed to press the Canadian government to “take the strongest

The world has forgotten Burma (Myanmar), two Burmese pro-democracy activists said during a recent visit to Canada to help draw attention to the plight of

A legal battle looms in the diocese of New Westminster as four of its priests resigned over the issue of same-sex blessings, formed a new

Mississauga, Ont. Financial difficulties continue to hound General Synod, with the 2004 budget incurring a deficit of $241,592 and the 2005 budget projected to suffer

No one remembers when they were planted on the small plot of land at the southeast corner of the national church office: two gingko trees

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s commission on communion has called for a ceasefire among Anglicans at odds over the issue of same-sex blessings in Canada and

She was three months pregnant and in danger of losing her baby when Vicky Galo’s mother asked her to wrap a shawl around her womb.

Dissenting minorities who strongly disagree with church decisions on the blessing of same-gender relationships should be provided with an alternate bishop, at least temporarily, says

Bishop Donald Harvey of the diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador has announced he will retire at the end of November. “It’s a combination of

Conservative bishops in the Anglican Church of Canada had mixed reactions to recent reports that Episcopalians opposed to the consecration of a gay bishop in

Toronto The task force mandated by the house of bishops to consider alternate episcopal oversight for those who strongly object to church decisions has wrapped

Toronto Donations to the Anglican Journal Appeal suffered a small decrease during its 10th anniversary in 2003, and gifts last year to the Primate’s World

Due to continuing financial constraints resulting from dwindling congregations, Archbishop Andrew Hutchison of the diocese of Montreal has decided not to replace Assistant Bishop Russell

The parish of St. Martin’s, North Vancouver, which earlier joined a coalition of parishes opposed to a diocesan synod resolution allowing same-sex blessings in the

The 16-member commission formed last October by the Archbishop of Canterbury to report on “the nature, extent and consequences of impaired communion” in the Anglican