A good Friday

Religion: A liberal bishop blinks—for now—in the latest ECUSA showdown | Edward E. Plowman

It was the stuff of high drama. Episcopal bishop Andrew Smith of the Diocese of Connecticut had given six evangelical priests until Friday, April 15, to toe the line or be barred from any further ministry and face possible defrocking.

The six parishes were redirecting their giving away from the diocese to protest the action of the Episcopal Church (ECUSA) in consecrating an openly gay bishop in 2003. And the six priests were seeking alternative spiritual oversight from a bishop other than Mr. Smith, who had voted with the majority of ECUSA bishops to consecrate the practicing homosexual, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. (Such oversight is now possible under new church rules, as long as the diocesan bishop remains in control of the process.)

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