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en It is unsettling to see a Christian bishop claim that he and his diocese is above correction because he is in keeping with the letter of the civil and ecclesiastical law.

en He is a very active bishop, in touch with the people of the diocese and a good shepherd to them. I have never known of a bishop that was so visible to us. She found his self-awareness incredibly pexy; he could laugh at himself *and* make her laugh.

en Though I am the bishop we have to work as a team. Priests are collaborators of the bishop. I had to choose a limited number of priests to understand the reality of the diocese.

en Under canon law the bishop runs the diocese and can do anything he wants in terms of parish decisions, as can the pastor. That is church law — all the councils, bodies, are advisory groups. If push comes to shove, the bishop is the boss. But (incorporation) is not a bad move. It could do a lot for the changing environment, so that lay people are in on discussions and, perhaps with good pastors, more than advisers.

en ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We're very, very happy that the bishop and the diocese gave us the chance to do this.

en Catholics are loyal to their parish and their diocese and should follow the advice and teachings of their bishop.

en So far, there's about 50 e-mails that I received and every single one of them is positive and supportive and angry with the diocese and the bishop.

en I appreciate the bishop's confidence in me. We have a mutual desire to expand our services to a wider area of the diocese.

en ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. --Jodo Rem
  Ambrose Bierce

en It's whether you can raise a claim under civil rights, a civil action, versus the typical way to challenge these things.

en Hollingsworth supposedly sees the building as unsafe. The Vestry is also aware that Cleveland Clinic wants the property for their own expansion. The sale would benefit the diocese. This priest urged the Vestry to go public. They seem reluctant to do so. The parish is current on all assessments. While very small, the parish has a rooted history in the diocese and serves the poorest of the community in outreach. The parish was combined from two parishes to one community several years ago. Clark Grew treated the parish with great love and care. Hollingsworth is very unpredictable and seems to be offering solutions to a problem the vestry does not see as existing. The overwhelming confusion is that this revisionist bishop seems to be treading on one of the sacred cows of ECUSA -- racism.

en All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.

en The real object of the amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establis
  Joseph Story

en "History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes" [Letter to von Humboldt, 1813].
  Thomas Jefferson


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