Dissension over the issue of homosexuality continued last month to mark life in some areas of the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA). On March 14, five conservative retired Episcopal bishops, one bishop from...
Category: May 2004, World, ECUSA, Sexuality debate
Conservative bishops in the Anglican Church of Canada had mixed reactions to recent reports that Episcopalians opposed to the consecration of a gay bishop in New Hampshire are preparing to replace the Episcopal Church of the...
Category: March 2004, Canada, ECUSA, Sexuality debate

When Bishop Alan Scarfe came to Anamosa, Iowa, to ordain Anne Moats Williams to the priesthood, he went to the State Penitentiary instead of St. Mark's Episcopal church. Although Ms. Williams is a long-time resident of...
Category: February 2004, ECUSA
The official dialogue between Roman Catholics and Anglicans has hit a speed bump, although both sides insist that they are committed to further conversations in their common search for Christian unity. A meeting of the...
Category: February 2004, Anglican Communion, ECUSA, Sexuality debate
The bishops of Congo, West Africa, are the latest to voice their condemnation of the consecration in New Hampshire of Bishop Gene Robinson and to dissociate themselves from dioceses and parishes "involved in homosexuality." ...
Category: February 2004, Anglican Communion, ECUSA, Sexuality debate
Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States (ECUSA) who dissented from decisions by last summer's General Convention endorsing the consecration of a gay bishop in New Hampshire have formed a rival network of dioceses and...
Category: February 2004, ECUSA, Sexuality debate
Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold of the Episcopal Church in the United States joined 32 other religious leaders in announcing a new effort to mobilize support in the pursuit of peace in the Middle East. In letters to the U.S....
Category: February 2004, Middle East, ECUSA
Church Publishing Inc., the official publisher of the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA), has appointed the Toronto-based Anglican Book Centre, the Anglican Church of Canada's nationally-known retailer of books,...
Category: January 2004, Canada, ECUSA

New York The consecration of Gene Robinson as the first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church of the United States (ECUSA) is complicating some of the church's ecumenical relations -- especially among...
Category: January 2004, ECUSA, Sexuality debate
Last month's consecration of Canon V. Gene Robinson as bishop coadjutor in the diocese of New Hampshire brought swift and varied reactions from Anglican leaders around the world - and dire warnings that the future of the Anglican...
Category: December 2003, United States, ECUSA, Sexuality debate