Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Episcopal News Services reported Monday that the Rev. Canon Mark Lawrence has received sufficient consents for him to be consecrated Bishop...

At its annual convention on November 2–3, the Diocese of Pittsburgh will move toward or away from schism. A big question now is which parish...

The September 25 statement from the House of Bishops turned out to be something of an anticlimax. It contains hardly anything new, other th...

After conferring with the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Anglican leaders in New Orleans Thursday and Friday, the Episcopal Church’s Hou...

In “ Agreeing to Agree ,” I referred to a Boston Globe story that had Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan saying that he intended to try taking...

Monday’s District V meeting at St. Paul’s (see “ ‘... the bishop didn’t say that.’ ”) was unsatisfactory, at least in the minds of the paris...

Is the diocese planning something dramatic to be revealed on Tuesday evening, or has Chancellor Devlin been reading too many spy novels? Tha...

I attended a Diocese of Pittsburgh event last night. It was a meeting of church members in District V, one of the regional groupings of pari...

In a diocese whose bishop brazenly declares his intention to remove it from the Episcopal Church (see “ Agreeing to Agree ”), it is not surp...

Ostensibly, the Diocese of Pittsburgh is engaged in a discernment process that will determine its destiny. In practice, the broad outlines o...

NPR broadcast a typically brief report on an Iraqi bombing this morning. “Most of the victims,” listeners were told, “were women and childre...

The bottled water industry has come under increasing criticism of late, and not always from predictable sources. Its most obvious vulnerabil...

The odd story of how consents are actually obtained for consecrations in The Episcopal Church that I wrote about yesterday saw further deve...

Not every church has the formal legal structure of The Episcopal Church. Its ultimate governing authority, a triennial gathering of bishops,...

Because my Web site and blog were always intended as outlets for my own work, I am not in the habit of calling attention to what others have...

Episcopalians have a reputation for—and perhaps even pride themselves on—having names for everything. Every architectural detail of a church...