[Apologetics] Breaking news: Pittsburgh votes to secede from Episcopal Church

[Dianne Dawson]

http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2008/10/breaking-news-pittsburgh-votes-to.html

Sunday, October 05, 2008 
Breaking news: Pittsburgh votes to secede from Episcopal Church 
Deputies
to the 143rd diocesan convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh
have voted to realign the diocese with the Anglican Province of the
Southern Cone.

The Episcopal News Service said that the vote
came quickly after the convention gave the second required approval to
constitutional changes that removed all mention of the Episcopal Church.

"I
believe that the vast majority of Episcopalians and Anglicans will be
intensely grieved by the actions of individuals who thought it
necessary to remove them from The Episcopal Church," Presiding Bishop
Katharine Jefferts Schori said after the vote.

"I have
repeatedly reassured Episcopalians that there is abundant room for
dissent within this Church, and that loyal opposition is a long and
honored tradition within Anglicanism. Schism is not, having frequently
been seen as a more egregious error than charges of heresy. There is
room in this Church for all who desire to be members of it. The actions
of the former bishop of Pittsburgh, and some lay and clergy leaders,
have removed themselves from this Church; the rest of the Church
laments their departure. We stand ready to welcome the return of any
who wish to rejoin this part of the Body of Christ.

"We will
work with remaining Episcopalians in Pittsburgh to provide support as
they reorganize the Diocese and call a bishop to provide episcopal
ministry. The people of The Episcopal Church hold all concerned in our
prayers -- for healing and comfort in time of distress, and for
discernment as they seek their way into the future.

"The mission
of God, in which The Episcopal Church participates, is to love God and
to love our neighbors as ourselves. We cannot do one without doing the
other. We believe that it is in serving the least among us that we
discover the image of God, and the presence of a suffering Christ. It
is in serving those least that we rediscover our common mission, which
transcends our differences. Jesus weeps at the bickering of his
brothers and sisters, particularly when they miss him in their midst."

Deposed
Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan (pictured) sat with convention
officials in the chancel of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in
Monroeville from the beginning of the convention. The Rev Jonathan
Millard, rector of the Church of the Ascension in Oakland,
Pennsylvania, was elected to run the convention in the absence of a
sitting bishop.
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Sotto Voce

(Source:  RI) 
Posted by Sotto Voce at 10/05/2008 12:18:00 AM  

 
Like a deer that longs for running waters so my soul longs for you, O God.
Ps 42:1


      
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