The local Episcopal bishop has been busy.
In late September, Bishop Gladstone “Skip” Adams traveled to New Orleans to meet with other bishops to discuss how the Episcopal Church might remain in communion with the worldwide Anglican church amid disagreements over homosexuality and biblical authority.
He supported a statement from the House of Bishops that agrees not to consecrate “any candidate to the episcopate whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead to further strains on the communion.” That, he translated in a recent interview, means no other gay men or lesbians will become bishops until the church’s General Convention rules on the issue.
This is the Diocese of Central New York.
Ditto, Mary. This is Matt Kennedy’s diocese. The article is from the Syracuse paper, where Central New York has its headquarters. The Diocese of Western NY is, of course, based in Buffalo. Kendall must have been in a hurry.
Hey all. I tried to fix the headline, but I’m using the computers at a friend’s office and I’m being blocked out of the blog admin (odd). Yes, Kendall has been really busy lately. Please keep him and his family in prayer. I know he knows +Adams is bishop of Central NY.
Hopefully one of us can fix the title sooner rather than later. Appreciate the corrections in the comments.
–elfgirl
This would be true if General Convention delegates were truly representatives of the people in the pews:
“On the weight of the bishops’ New Orleans statement: The bishops don’t just go off and say, “This is what we’re going to do.” The church speaks through the voice of all the baptized at General Convention.
There are a few problems with this. Here’s two:
1. Anyone who has been to a diocesan convention or two can see that the people at diocesan convention are generally more liberal than the people in the pews. Thus, the selection of delegates from this pool necessarily means that the delegates are going to be more liberal than the people in the pew.
2. I have heard delegates say at diocesan annual convention that they are not representatives, they are delegates. This means that they vote how they want and not in a necessarily representative fashion. pecusa’s own polling shows how unrepresentative the controversial votes of GC03 were.
“2. I have heard delegates say at diocesan annual convention that they are not representatives, they are delegates. This means that they vote how they want and not in a necessarily representative fashion. pecusa’s own polling shows how unrepresentative the controversial votes of GC03 were”.
Tony, any possibility that national pew potatoes(not just in DioCNY) will realize this and start stepping up?
I won’t hold my breath…
I find it difficult to use nicknames for bishops and Skip is really a stretch. But, I digress. The good bishop really has better to worry about. Between 1996 and 2002, the diocese lost about 11 percent of its members. And between 2002 and 2006, the diocese lost about another 17 percent. Between 1996 and 2002, Plate & Pledge increased by about 17 percent which was close to covering inflation.
But between 2002 and 2006, Plate & Pledge increased by about 10 percent which did not cover inflation. So it has been a decade without any increase in real income. Statmann
According to the news I get from there, their finances are in a nosedive. I was born and raised in that diocese (my wife and I were at the former St Paul’s in Marcy), and we’re glad we left when we did.
I don’t understand this: He suspends a homosexual priest for molesting boys…….and then what? Is not the priest then turned over to the police? How can he not dismiss him outright, given the crime? I never understood this with the RC mess of the same sort. Why were so few charged criminally? Larry