Nazir-Ali: Britons suffer ‘cultural amnesia’
The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali said the works of Shakespeare or Milton could not have been written without the English translation of the Bible and the publication of the Book of Common Prayer, while great paintings and pieces of music were inspired by Christianity and made to be showcased in churches and cathedrals. …
– Story from The (UK) Telegraph. (Photo: Joy Gwaltney)
Schori’s memo planning Duncan deposition
Greg Griffith, at Stand Firm, has published a memo allegedly by TEC Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, detailing her plans to depose Pittsburgh bishop Bob Duncan. …
September 12, 2008
Memorandum to the House of Bishops
Subject: Bishop of PittsburghSisters and Brothers:
As has been widely reported, at the forthcoming business meeting of the House in Salt Lake City on September 18, I shall present to the House the matter of the certification to me by the Title IV Review Committee that Bishop Robert W. Duncan has abandoned the Communion of this Church within the meaning of Canon IV.9. In this memorandum, I layout the background of this matter and what I see as the procedural and substantive issues that are raised by it. …
– Read it all – and a related memo from the Task Force on Property Disputes (PDF file – direct link).
(Photo: Episcopal Life Online / Richard Schori.)
Pastoral Letter from Bishop Robert Duncan
13th September, A.D. 2008
St. Cyprian of Carthage
TO THE CLERGY AND PEOPLE OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH:
Beloved in the Lord,
In a letter to the House of Bishops yesterday, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori made it clear that there will be a vote this coming Thursday on whether to depose me from the ministry of the Episcopal Church. The charge is abandonment of the Communion of the Church, a charge initiated by five priests and sixteen laypeople of the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Much of the “evidence” in the case is put forward by the House of Bishops Property Task Force, drawn directly from the Calvary litigation. We have long suspected that a principal purpose in the Calvary litigation was to have me removed, by whatever means, before the realignment vote. Whatever the purported evidence, I continue to maintain that the House of Bishops “vote” will be a gross violation of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. Read more