January 1, 2003 Images of schools on display

Ottawa An exhibit of photographs from Indian residential schools called Where Are The Children? Healing the Legacy of the Residential Schools is on display at the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa through Feb. 3, 2003. ...

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January 1, 2003 Parishes pray by the calendar

Two urban parishes, several time zones apart, are separately beginning to forge dialogue and perhaps relationships with aboriginal Anglicans, starting with two of the most basic forms of communication: prayers and letters. ...

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January 1, 2003 TV diary features priests

Rev. Lynn Griffin, a diocese of Ottawa priest who is on disability leave from St. Barnabas, Deep River, Ont., is the star of a special CTV weekly dairy about coping with cancer. Called Lynn's Diary: A battle with cancer, the...

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January 1, 2003 Churches oppose patent

Ottawa Canadian Council of Churches and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada welcomed a Supreme Court decision Dec. 5 not to allow the patenting of higher life forms - such as the Harvard mouse - in Canada. The CCC and the EFC...

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January 1, 2003 Fredericton bishop announces retirement

The diocese of Fredericton's synod, held in mid-November, voted to call an electoral synod for March 15, 2003 in order to elect a successor to Bishop William Hockin, 64, who plans to retire on Oct. 31, 2003. Bishop Hockin, who...

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January 1, 2003 We have much to build, much to build on

This marks the final editorial by Vianney Carriere, who is now General Synod's acting director of communications (see story in Canada). THE PRIMATE has called this "a moment in time," a phrase so simple and yet so...

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January 1, 2003 Challenge is to share with others what we have received

ALMOST 60 years ago, a young priest, Bill Wright, having completed a two-year curacy at Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa, was making his farewells to the dean, a gracious priest of great wisdom and pastoral experience. He...

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January 1, 2003 Two ancient remedies to discern the will of God

Dear editor, The Oct. 29 statement by the house of bishops is troublesome for two reasons. First, it suggests the bishops are unable to find the mind of God. One would have thought that the past many years of church-wide...

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January 1, 2003 Visiting other churches calls for respect

Dear editor, The tone of some recent letters addressing the issue of communicating in churches of other denominations is distressing. Different and sometimes contradictory ways of understanding the nature and purpose of what is...

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January 1, 2003 Bishop Harold Jones

Bishop Harold Jones, retired bishop of the Episcopal diocese of South Dakota and the first American Indian to be elevated to the office of bishop by any Christian denomination died in November. He was 92. "He lived the...

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