Bishop M. Thomas Shaw of Massachusetts has announced that the Rev. William Murdoch, who has served as the rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in West Newbury since 1993, is leaving the Episcopal Church to serve as bishop suffragan of All Saints Cathedral, Diocese of Nairobi, in the Anglican Province of Kenya. Murdoch was elected on June 29 and is to be consecrated on Aug. 30 in Nairobi.
Well, not I know that it is the Sacre Coeur in Amesbury that has bit the dust. I was astounded. Amesbury has – or had – a massive FrenchCanadian
population. What could have happened? One heard French spoken in hundreds of families. Anyway the neews is all over the local papers, so I’m told. St James, the Episcopal Church in town, now has a woman pastor – what else – and is very big and successful with social events of all sorts. There will be some heartburning here. Sacred Heart is not omly a cathedral but has a school connected with it and dormitories for nuns and priests, and a big big parish hall. I really must go back sometime soon and check the results out for myself. The guys I talked to in Amesbury however, had little idea of what was going on in the Episky church and were astonished that Africa was reaching deep into American religion. They are however utterly in sympathy with St. James and its homophile agenda.
Larry