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September 24 2004 By virtueonline UGANDA TO ECUSA: "Keep your UTO Funds. We are in broken communion with you"

For many of us, the internal workings of ECUSA are a mystery. Were it not for the information revealed in these open letters, we would not have known that the UTO grants of the Episcopal Church Women were part of the official ECUSA structure.

September 23 2004 By virtueonline NEWPORT BEACH, CA: St. James secession nets lord's judgment

Lord George L. Carey, the retired 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury who headed the Anglican Church until 2002, led back-to-back confirmation services last week at the historic Truro Church in Fairfax, Va. Carey reportedly told the media during a press conference after the services that he objected to the Los Angeles Diocese's move to file lawsuits against the three churches that seceded and placed themselves under the Diocese of Luwero, in the Anglican Union province of Uganda, Africa.

September 22 2004 By virtueonline CONCORD, NH: Police investigate hazing at Episcopal boarding school

Dickson said the school is offering counseling to all the girls involved.

School officials would not say what students had done that was considered hazing. They did say the behavior did not involve physical contact or physical harm.

September 22 2004 By virtueonline FLORIDA: APA and FIFNA enter into Concordat. ECUSA bishop stresses unity

As a sign of this, he welcomed the synod's ecumenical observers: The Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Bishop of the ECUSA Diocese of Pittsburgh and Moderator of the Anglican Communion Network, The Rt. Rev. Keith Ackerman, Bishop of the ECUSA Diocese of Quincy, The Rt. Rev. Royal Grote, Bishop of the REC's Diocese of Mid-America, The Rev. Canon Warren Tanghe, SSC, and Lay Canon Cris Fouse of Forward in Faith, North America, and The Rev. James Monroe of the Anglican Catholic Church.

September 21 2004 By virtueonline WASHINGTON, DC: Anglican Communion Network tops 1,000 clergy, 800 congregations:

“The Anglican Communion Network exists to provide a united voice for orthodox Anglicans in North America as well as a connection to the vast majority of the global Anglican Communion who have rejected last summer’s unity-destroying actions of our Episcopal Church,” said Bishop Robert Duncan, moderator of the Network, “It’s wonderful to see so many faithful Episcopalians and other members of our Anglican family standing up to be counted.”

September 21 2004 By virtueonline DELAWARE: Broadhurst Urges Greater Unity Among Anglican Catholics

ECUSA “must fall and be destroyed if the Lord is to be restored to it,” the Bishop told a gathering of bishops, priests at laity from England, Canada and the United States, including many from continuing Anglican bodies. The same holds for the Church of England, he added.

September 20 2004 By virtueonline WALES: Morgan vows not to add to persecution in gay sex wars

"We do not as a church want to do anything that adds to the suffering and marginalisation of such people."

The Archbishop was speaking this week at the Church in Wales governing body meeting in Lampeter.

He made it clear he believes the church had a role in speaking on
social and political issues.

He said clerics were often criticised for not sticking to strictly
religious issues.

September 19 2004 By virtueonline LONDON: Women may be bishops but not archbishops

The options propose to allow women to become bishops but not archbishops of Canterbury or York; to deny them the chance to have their own dioceses; or to require them to be part of a team with at least one male bishop to chaperone them.

September 19 2004 By virtueonline BRAZIL: Evangelical Diocese loses Parishes in Power Play to Liberal Bishops

For many years the largely liberal (and ECUSA financed) Province of Brazil has struggled to accept the existence within it of a vibrant, committed, and mission oriented evangelical contingent based in the North East of the country. As the storm clouds gather over the Anglican Communion as a whole, it appears that the Primate, Dom Orlando with the other liberal bishops, is bent on coercing Dom. Robinson Cavalcanti and the evangelical diocese of Recife out into the storm.

September 18 2004 By virtueonline LONDON: Archbishop's right to invite under the scrutiny of Eames

At the CAPA meeting the mind of the Bishops of the global south will be revealed as to whether they believe the "discipline" meted out to the Episcopal Church of the USA meets their demands.

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