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8 May 2014, 6:31 am
The litigation agenda of the Episcopal Church (USA) continues to garner victories in California (where a single federal district court was allowed to overturn a constitutional initiative passed by a clear majority of voters). [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 4:14 pm
Elsewhere -- and in the case caption itself -- it describes him as the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina." [read post]
14 Jan 2016, 11:13 pm
There were many calls to cut off the Episcopal Church (USA)'s subsidy to the Anglican Communion Office -- as though ECUSA should withhold its money from those who dissent from it, while expecting its own dissenting members to voluntarily surrender their churches and bank accounts in lieu of being sued for them. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 9:07 am
Enter the so-called "Dennis Canon," in the case of the Episcopal Church. [read post]
2 Oct 2010, 4:26 pm
For its first decade, the new Church performed its episcopal ordinations during sessions of General Convention. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 8:22 pm
As reported here, the Episcopal Church (USA) and its rump group in South Carolina filed a 182-page motion for reconsideration with Circuit Court Judge Diane S. [read post]
20 Jan 2024, 4:36 pm by Howard Friedman
Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, (D NJ, Jan. 18, 2024), a New Jersey federal district court held that the ministerial exception doctrine requires the court to dismiss racial discrimination and wrongful discharge claims brought by an African-American Episcopal priest who was dismissed from his position after allegedly false charges of financial and sexual misconduct. [read post]
21 Oct 2012, 9:07 pm
The Chancellor who is unnamed in the post concludes that there is no violation of a fiduciary duty to any entity by voting to take a church or diocese out of the Episcopal Church. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 4:09 pm by Michael B. Cohen, P.A.
” Roof is accused of slaughtering nine African American churchgoers during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 4:09 pm by Michael B. Cohen, P.A.
” Roof is accused of slaughtering nine African American churchgoers during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. [read post]
26 Mar 2011, 9:57 am
(For details, see this post, and this one.)Third proposition: As such, there is no single person (or body) at the "head" of the Episcopal Church (USA). [read post]
12 Apr 2009, 4:05 am
John's Episcopal Church, across Lafayette Park from the White House. [read post]
30 Jul 2016, 8:51 am
I have to wonder, in light of the recent stories highlighted below, whether it's still worth any reader's time to generate posts about the Anglican Communion.First of all, the Episcopal Congregations in the United States of America (what used to call themselves ECUSA) are no longer a church, let alone a bona fide member of the Anglican Communion. [read post]
25 Dec 2017, 5:09 am
"Inside the church, festive with candles and Christmas trees, a choir, accompanied by brass instruments, organ and kettledrums, sang O Come All Ye Faithful, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, the First Noel and other carols. [read post]
5 Sep 2013, 10:31 am
For the past 4 ½ years, we have been under the cloud of a lawsuit brought against us by The Episcopal Church and its local supporters, seeking to deprive us of our buildings and assets. [read post]
15 May 2007, 2:57 pm
An activist at one Episcopal meeting urged the African bishops to "go back to the jungle where you came from. [read post]
4 Apr 2014, 9:58 pm
In 2009, in its decision in The Episcopal Church Cases, the California Supreme Court read section 9142 (c) to empower ECUSA to impose a trust on all property of every Episcopal Church parish in California simply by the enactment of its Dennis Canon -- three years before the statute enabling the Canon was adopted.Ever since, ECUSA has used the Dennis Canon to win many suits against individual parishes in California who took steps to leave their diocese without the… [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 9:40 am
The Court stressed that “whi1e the CANA Congregations had an absolute right to depart from TEC and the Diocese, they had no right to take these seven Episcopal churches with them. [read post]