April 1, 2005 'Reality check' needed after budget shortfall

With a deficit of more than $500,000 for 2004, the financial management and development committee of General Synod (the national office of the Anglican Church of Canada) may have to amend the 2005 budget, said treasurer Peter...

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April 1, 2005 Former primate fills his days with parish duties, editing book

After 18 years as primate, or national archbishop, of the Anglican Church of Canada, Archbishop Michael Peers now handles some of the concerns of the average parish priest. Among other activities, he is filling in as...

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April 1, 2005 Lutherans put blessings issue to a vote this summer

The National Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) has voted to present to its National Convention a resolution that will allow local congregations to decide if they want to authorize the blessing of...

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April 1, 2005 Marking the Journal's 130 years

In early January, more than 130 years ago, Canadian Anglicans were pondering the merits of the plan by John A. Macdonald's government to build the Pacific Railway, reading church news from Europe and across the diocese, as well...

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April 1, 2005 Calgary bishop bows out of troubled diocese

Barry Hollowell has announced his resignation as bishop of Calgary effective Aug. 31, stating in an open letter that it would be "in the best interest of the diocese" that he do so in order that it may "move forward in its life...

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April 1, 2005 Council backs stipend for northern clergy

The church's poorest dioceses have agreed to provide remuneration to non-stipendiary (unpaid) priests in their dioceses working in excess of 10 hours each week, bucking a demand by the Anglican Council for Indigenous Peoples...

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April 1, 2005 Special delivery

Art Chamberlain (far right) and Lois Corbett, employees with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, accept gifts from Keith Stewart, of the Toronto Environmental Alliance, one of many representatives of environmental and...

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April 1, 2005 Ecumenical group may recommend public inquiry into residential schools

An ecumenical working group is examining the possibility of a public inquiry into the legacy of the native residential schools in Canada. The Anglican church, one of the churches involved, has asked the Anglican Council of...

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April 1, 2005 Project aids brothel children

The Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) has agreed to fund a project in Jessore, Bangladesh, that educates children of sex workers to provide them with an alternative to life in the brothels, where they are often...

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April 1, 2005 Canadian delegation to visit China

Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, will visit the People's Republic of China for the first time this month as part of an 11-member ecumenical delegation that also includes representatives from...

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