Most absurdly in the program, the Aidan Quinn character is portrayed as a courageous priest challenging a conservative church hierarchy. In real life, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut has a liberal bishop who is cracking down on dissenting conservative priests. The national Episcopal hierarchy is overwhelmingly liberal, and orthodox Episcopalians are increasingly looking to overseas Anglican primates for leadership and protection.
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This is an effort to undermine the good works that are happening in the diocese. It's a bit mystifying for an organization that claims to know what's best for the church to go ahead with spending what I would imagine would be significant dollars in a media outlet such as Newsday.
Catholics are loyal to their parish and their diocese and should follow the advice and teachings of their bishop.
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
If authentic, and we believe they are, the minutes of this meeting show how far the progressives are willing to go to appropriate what is not theirs, ... I trust that the people in the Diocese of Pittsburgh will see clearly who is serving their best interest.
Going to the Acolyte Festival was another way for us to participate in the global Episcopal community. We got to share the adventure with other churches in our diocese, but it also gave us the opportunity to be part of something much bigger and to enrich our young acolytes with the Episcopal culture from other American states.
It's from investment income and other things. Whatever the diocese has there is invested in things like the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) and other kinds of Catholic organizations and things that we've done over the years.
Our biggest problem is that the state of Connecticut's reimbursement has consistently lagged behind the cost of patient care on a day-to-day basis. It's a large gap that the diocese has filled to deliver a superior level of health care to our residents. But we simply do not have enough capital resources to keep up.
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.
This action from the Diocese of California appears to us to be an open act of defiance.
My father worked for the Diocese of Lexington, an Episcopal church - although we weren't Episcopalians - and he ran a summer camp in Eastern Kentucky.
It was announced publicly in the Diocese of Orlando,
Hollingsworth supposedly sees the building as unsafe. The Vestry is also aware that Cleveland Clinic wants the property for their own expansion. The sale would benefit the diocese. This priest urged the Vestry to go public. They seem reluctant to do so. The parish is current on all assessments. While very small, the parish has a rooted history in the diocese and serves the poorest of the community in outreach. The parish was combined from two parishes to one community several years ago. Clark Grew treated the parish with great love and care. Hollingsworth is very unpredictable and seems to be offering solutions to a problem the vestry does not see as existing. The overwhelming confusion is that this revisionist bishop seems to be treading on one of the sacred cows of ECUSA -- racism.
Cardinal Keeler is well respected among his fellow bishops, and the Archdiocese of Baltimore is the first American diocese, the seat of the church, ... The fact that he has chosen to be so public and forthright will hopefully resonate with bishops in other dioceses. The fact that Giuliani is a Republican, is popular, was involved with 911, doesn't change the fact that he is publicly opposed to fundamental Catholic teachings.
In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking.
To impose on these young boys, who were being brutally raped and molested, a duty to have found out the church as a whole, as well as the diocese and other defendants, were in possession of facts and fraudulently concealing them is a wrong conclusion.