Faced with a strong "mind of the house" resolution that would have chastised colleagues for "inappropriate behaviour" that threatens the unity of the church, the bishops of the Episcopal Church, meeting in Cleveland, asked the Committee on Pastoral Care to find a better way to deal with the issues.
10 October 2002
"The AIDS pandemic is still in its infancy," warned Stephen Lewis, special envoy for the secretary general of the United Nations in Africa, in a speech at the Cleveland meeting of the House of Bishops on October 1. "And it could spread rapidly to other places on the globe."
10 October 2002
Thomas Merton, Trappist Monk and poet: "If we attempt to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening our own self-understanding, our own freedom, integrity and capacity to love, we will not have anything to give to others. We will communicate nothing but the contagion of our own obsessions, our aggressiveness, our own ego-centered ambitions."
01 October 2002
This September and October the pioneer Spanish portal website www.anglicanos.netsees two celebrations with the weekly seedthought number 100 'sown' and the imminent fourth anniversary of its launch in 1998.
01 October 2002
The Presiding Bishop's statement on the conflict at Church of the Good Shepherd
11 September 2002
'A super power...must exercise the role of super servant'
10 September 2002
Seeks support for hospitals, schools and churches in the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem
10 September 2002
Deposed Episcopal priest, the Revd David L Moyer, celebrated mass at 12:05 on Friday 6 September at Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh.
10 September 2002
The 18-month-long impasse between a vestry in Accokeek, Maryland, and the Diocese of Washington over the election of a rector was broken August 29 with the issuance of a joint statement between the vestry and Bishop John Chane, naming the Revd Stephen Arpee as the parish's new rector.
06 September 2002
Episcopalians, Lutherans and Roman Catholics will discuss the role and power of bishops in the contemporary church at an international conference from September 20-23, 2002 in Waltham, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. Laity and clergy are welcome to this Anglican-Lutheran Society conference at the Espousal Retreat House and Conference Center.
06 September 2002