Mr. [John] Guernsey says his own church, All Saints’, voted 402-6 to align with Uganda late last year and avoided a legal battle over property by negotiating a settlement with the Virginia diocese. Late last year, Mr. Duncan, Pittsburgh’s dissident conservative bishop, wrote to Ugandan Archbishop Orombi and proposed that he promote Mr. Guernsey to bishop. Mr. Orombi, who says he has no designs on American property, embraced the idea so as to provide “Ugandan” churches in the U.S. with an American-based overseer.
A few weeks before this month’s ceremony in Mbarara, the Episcopal bishop of Virginia, Peter James Lee, booted Mr. Guernsey and 21 other dissident Virginia preachers from the Episcopal priesthood.
As he stood amid family members, supporters from Virginia and throngs of African faithful, Mr. Guernsey pledged allegiance to the Church of Uganda and vowed to “banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God’s word.”
A thin layer of clouds shielded the gathering from a scorching equatorial sun. This, declared Archbishop Orombi, showed the occasion was God’s work. “This weather is not normal,” he told the crowd. “God has done a good thing.”
God has indeed done a good thing!
A small point: is it proper to address an Anglican bishop as “Mr.” ?
I grow weary of the term “dissident.” That term is in the eyes of the beholder. If you look at it in TEC terms, we are dissidents. If you look at it in terms of the Anglican Communion, it is actually the revisionist leadership of TEC that are the dissidents.
And Jeff #2, I am not up to date on my journalistic style, but I have seen many newspapers refer to people by their title the first time they mention a name, and then Mr. or Ms. afterward. You hear this happen a lot with President Bush. They’ll call him President George W. Bush the first time, then Mr. Bush afterward.
I too grow weary of the term ‘dissident’. ECUSA has found a derrogatory term to group us all as, and boy are they making good use of it! Kinda like the term ‘homophobe’ which was quite deliberately chosen and which for the vast majority of us is a total falsehood.
Noticed that “minister” and “preacher” were used synonomously with “priest” several times in the article.
Also, took a look at two recent WSJ articles focused on Roman Catholic leaders, Los Angeles Cardinal Mahoney and French Cardinal Lustiger. Mahoney was referred to twice by his title. Lustiger was referred to four times by his title. Neither was referred to as Mr.
Ah well. Knowing that Episcopalians are really just a minor Protestant sect keeps one humble.
[blockquite]but I have seen many newspapers refer to people by their title the first time they mention a name, and then Mr. or Ms. afterward.[/blockquote]
I have never seen a Rabbi, a Roman Catholic priest or a medical doctor referred to as “Mr. or Ms.” Nor have I seen an Imam referred to in such a fashion. Do you care to explain the disparity?
[blockquote]but I have seen many newspapers refer to people by their title the first time they mention a name, and then Mr. or Ms. afterward.[/blockquote]
I have never seen a Rabbi, a Roman Catholic priest or a medical doctor referred to as “Mr. or Ms.” Nor have I seen an Imam referred to in such a fashion. Do you care to explain the disparity?
As a free market person myself, I understand why the article is in the “Subscriber only” section of WSJ. Still, is there any other way we can read the entire article online?
The answer is when WSJ, themselves, make it free.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119023295621032668.html
This link seemed hit-or-miss. Sometimes I get the entire article. Other times, just the preview.