November 1, 2007 Sombre ceremony

Chaplains, including Rev. Major Malcolm Berry of the diocese of Fredericton (left, in foreground), pay their last respects to two fallen soldiers in a ramp ceremony at Afghanistan’s Kandahar Air Field earlier this year. The...

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November 1, 2007 Synod says yes to blessings

The synod of the diocese of Ottawa by a vote of 177 to 97 approved on Oct. 13 a motion requesting its bishop to allow clergy “whose conscience permits, to bless duly solemnized and registered civil marriages between same-sex couples” and to authorize rites for such blessings.

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November 1, 2007 Primate urges new focus for Canadian church

Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, is urging Canadian Anglicans to find a balance between addressing issues that “consume us internally” such as human sexuality and those that call them to “serve the needs of the world.”

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November 1, 2007 A green field in Vimy

One day last April, I stood on a green field and cried as I watched the sun caress the newly-restored Canadian National Vimy Memorial. One cold day, 90 years ago, Pte. Joseph Banville of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces stood by the same ridge, knee-deep in mud, and died for peace. The memorial honours him, as well as thousands of other faceless young Canadian men, for his sacrifice.

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November 1, 2007 Investigation clears former Quebec treasurer

The diocese of Quebec has cleared its former treasurer, Rev. Rodney Clark, of any wrongdoing after completing an investigation into what it described in December 2006 as “significant accounting irregularities,” and said that the matter has been resolved.

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November 1, 2007 Bible translation was 25 years in the making

The New Testament is now available in the Naskapi language, the fruit of 25 years of translation work by Silas Nabinicaboo, a lay reader of the aboriginal church in Kawawachikamach, diocese of Quebec, and Bill Jancewicz, an American translator associated with the Wycliffe Bible Translators.

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November 1, 2007 Yukon’s Archbishop Buckle to retire at end of 2008

Archbishop Terrence O. Buckle, bishop of the diocese of Yukon and metropolitan (provincial archbishop) of British Columbia and the Yukon, has announced his retirement effective December 2008.

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November 1, 2007 Church may soon be reimbursed for residential school payouts

The Anglican Church of Canada in September submitted a report to the federal government showing how much compensation it has paid out to former students of native boarding schools under an old residential schools settlement agreement.

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November 1, 2007 Northern dioceses want closer relations with native Anglicans

The Council of the North has identified the mending of its strained relationship with the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) as one of its top priorities for the next triennium.

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November 1, 2007 Caring for Canada’s troops ‘an honour’ for military chaplains

On Sept. 24, 2007, Cpl. Nathan Hornburg was killed in Afghanistan by mortar fire as he was repairing a tank track. He was 24 and a reservist in the King’s Own Calgary Regiment, based in Calgary.

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