National & World News
Bishops develop proposal responding to
"Appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury"
Bishop Henderson was member of proposing group
[ENS / ACNS] A group of bishops, including Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and our own Bishop Henderson, developed a proposal responding to "An Appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury" addressing what other petitioning bishops and dioceses have termed "alternative primatial oversight" or "alternative primatial relationship."
The full proposal, together with a
statement from the bishops' group, and Bishop Henderson's
comments is
here.
The ENS report of the Archbishop of Canterbury's response is
here.
San Joaquin convention seeks to
sever diocese from Episcopal Church
Presiding Bishop, deputies' president respond to
'extracanonical' actions
[ENS] Meeting during its 47th annual Convention December 1-2, the diocese approved the first reading of four constitutional amendments which would remove references to the Episcopal Church, make the Standing Committee the ecclesiastical authority in the absence of any sitting bishops, put all diocesan trust funds under the control of the bishop, and permit the diocese unilaterally to extend itself beyond its current geographic boundaries.
The constitutional amendments will not take effect until a second vote is taken at another annual convention meeting, scheduled for October 2007. The second reading will require a two-thirds majority in order for the amendments to pass, according to the release.
Read the complete ENS story here.
Eyes on the Millennium Development Goals
Both
the national Church and our diocese have resolved to support the
Millennium Development Goals, an eight-pronged initiative whose
aim is to cut extreme global poverty in half by the year 2015,
and so it makes sense to keep abreast of great ideas that will
help us honor this promise. Check out (and subscribe to) this
newsletter,
"What One Can Do," from
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation, for some innovative
approaches to helping make poverty history.