The Episcopal Church has launched Together Again/Juntos de Nuevo: Cuba Pensions Campaign to help 25 priests of the Episcopal Church of Cuba. The campaign follows a vote last summer at the 79th General Convention to readmit the Cuban church as a diocese after 52 years of separation. Presiding Bishop Michael Curry encourages all Episcopalians to participate in the campaign … [Read more...] about Pensions for Cuban Priests
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Deputies: ¡Cuba Sí!
By Matthew Townsend La Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba will soon be a diocese of the Episcopal Church. The House of Deputies of General Convention has unanimously passed Resolution A238, which calls for the diocese to be admitted to the church as soon as Executive Council acknowledges receipt of routine paperwork by the secretary of General Convention. The House of Bishops … [Read more...] about Deputies: ¡Cuba Sí!
‘¡Cuba nunca se fue!’
By Kirk Petersen With boisterous expressions of gratitude and joy, the House of Bishops on Tuesday unanimously welcomed La Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba back into the Episcopal Church, 52 years after the same body unilaterally expelled the church at the height of the Cold War. “Bishop Griselda may take her seat at Table 7,” declared Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, drawing … [Read more...] about ‘¡Cuba nunca se fue!’
Ending 50 Years of Solitude
The Cuban church’s desire to rejoin the Episcopal Church is at loggerheads with canon law in Austin, challenging Episcopalians to keep one eye on the Spirit and one eye on the rules. By Matthew Townsend The journey to reunification of the Episcopal Church of Cuba (La Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba) and the Episcopal Church may seem a long one — at least in Austin. You have to … [Read more...] about Ending 50 Years of Solitude
A Covenant for Cuba?
By Matthew Townsend For the past year, the Episcopal Church of Cuba has seemed on the verge of full reintegration with the larger Episcopal Church — but a proposal from the House of Deputies could delay a more complete reunion. Resolution D060, discussed July 5 by General Convention’s Episcopal Church in Cuba Committee, strikes a more cautious note than A052, developed by the … [Read more...] about A Covenant for Cuba?
Cuban Church Poised to Reintegrate
By Matthew Townsend If next year’s General Convention approves reintegrating the Episcopal Church of Cuba with the Episcopal Church in the United States, American Episcopalians will discover a church at once foreign and familiar. The Cuban church is historically Episcopal; it began as a mission of the Episcopal Church. That relationship ended with the U.S. embargo of Cuba in … [Read more...] about Cuban Church Poised to Reintegrate
Cubans Keep the Faith
Ann Benoit writes for the Covington Town Talk section of The Times-Picayune about the Rt. Rev. Griselda Delgado Del Carpio’s visit to Christ Church, Covington:During her speech, translated by Spanish teachers from Christ Episcopal School, Bishop Del Carpio stated that we are living in an historical moment. Less than a month ago the Cuban flag was installed at the new Cuban … [Read more...] about Cubans Keep the Faith
Cuban Church Looks North
Leigh Anne Williams writes for Anglican Journal about the Episcopal Church of Cuba voting at its synod to rejoin the U.S.-based Episcopal Church:The move came two months after the historic decision by the United States and Cuba to re-establish diplomatic relations after a 54-year hiatus. …Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and Archdeacon Michael … [Read more...] about Cuban Church Looks North