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April 16 2004
ECUSA: Barna Report Refutes Claim That Church Giving is Down
According to Episcopal Church treasurer Kurt Barnes charitable and nonprofit organizations have suffered income restrictions this year due to a poorly performing economy, citing declines of up to 20 percent. "Layoffs affect churches too," he pointed out.
Nationally, donations to the Episcopal Church are down about $3 million, or 6 percent, since the confirmation of New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson, officials said.
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April 15 2004
NEWARK: Parish Applies for DEPO
They sent the following letter to Bishop John P. Croneberger
Rt. Rev. John P. Croneberger
Bishop of Newark
Diocese of Newark
31 Mulberry St.
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Re: House of Bishop’s Plan for Episcopal Oversight
Dear Bishop Croneberger,
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April 14 2004
ECUSA: Church Annual Blasts Robinson Consecration
The Morehouse Publishing editorial said that few events in recent church history have had the impact that this decision has made on the church and the polity of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
“The controversy has been brewing for many years, not only in the Episcopal Church but in most major denominations and, for that matter, society at large.”
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April 12 2004
REDIRECTING YOUR FUNDS: A LIST OF MINISTRIES
While some parishes are forced to pay their apportionment (assessment), they are not obliged to pay further monies toward the diocese’s ongoing “mission”. Those monies are optional, though Virtuosity has learned that in dioceses like Pennsylvania and Florida the bishops are twisting arms, using threats and coercion to extort more money out of richer orthodox parishes to support their agendas.
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April 12 2004
NEW HAMPSHIRE: Orthodox Episcopalians vow they will not give up
“We will not give up and we will not accept anything less than we have demanded,” said Jerry DeLemus, senior warden of Redeemer Episcopal Church in Rochester, NH.
“We want alternative episcopal oversight, nothing less. We don’t want the watered down episcopal care options of the ECUSA leadership or Robinson,” said DeLemus in a phone call to Virtuosity.
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April 12 2004
AAC: President Says DEPO Plan Inadequate
The Primates called for adequate provision, and any provision that frustrates delays or denies the process isn’t adequate.
The AAC on the other hand will work in a grass roots manner to help orthodox ECUSA congregations that are already known to the bishop, apply for DEPO. Although the AAC doesn’t believe that DEPO is adequate, it is the vehicle produced by the House of Bishops, and AAC wants to see it in action.
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April 09 2004
CONNECTICUT: Bishop Lays Down Law on DEPO
What he laid down was this. He said that he would “continue to exercise constitutional and canonical jurisdiction in all congregations of the diocese.” Furthermore he would be involved in the life and mission of the parish with a yearly meeting with the parish Vestry, “and in other ways as are appropriate.”
But then he added a proviso.
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April 07 2004
PENNSYLVANIA: Priest and Retired Bishop Exchange Letters Over ECUSA Crisis
Zabriskie described himself as one who sits on several national and international boards on behalf of the ECUSA, wrote that “good Episcopalians can differ regarding important theological and ethical matters” but crossing diocesan boundaries is going too far.
He concluded his letter saying, “it is my deepest hope that the Communion will stand, the Church will flourish and we will not be self-consumed and broken irrevocably.”
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April 07 2004
WESTERN NEW YORK: Bishop Garrison Just Doesn't Get It
Garrison believes that sex outside of marriage, particularly homoerotic behavior is good and right in the eyes of God and so he voted for V. Gene Robinson’s election, confirmation and consecration.
A lot of his people don’t share his beliefs, and they believe that if they support his non-biblical agenda they might jeopardize their own souls. That price is too high to pay and so they have cut him off at the knees.
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April 05 2004
VANCOUVER: Six Orthodox Clergy Leave Diocese of New Westminster
The priests involved are the Rev. Barclay Mayo, rector of St. Andrews, Pender Harbour, the Rev. Silas Ng, rector of the Church of Emmanuel, Richmond, the Rev. Ed Hird, rector of St. Simon’s, North Vancouver, and the Rev. Paul Carter, a priest on leave from the diocese.
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