(By James Solheim ENS) In a sweeping liturgy that combined soaring choral music, the heady rhythms of Native American drums and African American spirituals, with the spectacle and colour of stately processions, Frank Tracy Griswold of Chicago was invested as the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at Washington National Cathedral January 10.
18 January 1998
(ENS) In a sweeping liturgy that combined soaring choral music, the heady rhythms of Native American drums and African American spirituals, with the spectacle and colour of stately processions, Frank Tracy Griswold of Chicago was invested as the 25th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church at Washington National Cathedral on 10 January.
12 January 1998
Grace and peace to those of you who are present in this sacred space representing the Episcopal Church, our world-wide Anglican Communion, the ancient churches of the East and West, the churches of the Reformation, and the two other faith communities
12 January 1998
Good Shepherd Mission, Fort Defiance, Ariz, is much more than a simple parish church, although it is that. In its 103-year history, it has been a hospital, school, orphanage and training centre. Currently, mental health, AODA and traditional healing, Americorp and a community college rent space inexpensively. There is housing for teachers in the local school system.
12 January 1998
Niche diplomacy - concentrating our available resources and influence on areas where we can actually make a difference is what Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy has been practising in the Ottawa Process around landmines. Two stories that lay together on a PWRDF desk give some clues as to a Canadian Anglican niche in the world-wide efforts to address landmine issues. Both are from Maputo, Mozambique.
12 January 1998
The American Bible Society (ABS) is giving $5 million to a project intended to link every church in North America to the World Wide Web.
23 December 1997
Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning has renewed the Episcopal Church's call for the Israeli government to share Jerusalem as the capital of two sovereign states, Israel and Palestine.
23 December 1997
A bomb thrown into the property of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I seriously injured an Orthodox deacon and damaged a portion of the Cathedral of St George in Istanbul, Turkey, in early December.
23 December 1997
The Washington National (Anglican) Cathedral has filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers and its parent company, Time-Warner, for "illicit use" of a cathedral sculpture in the film, "The Devil's Advocate".
22 December 1997
The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief recently issued $50,000 in emergency grants in response to civil unrest and natural disaster in Sierra Leone, Kenya and Spain.
22 December 1997