Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

That the Title IV Review Committee concluded that the former San Joaquin bishop, John-David Schofield, has abandoned the communion of The E...

The Episcopal Church has been much in the news in the past few years, but it is difficult to be thankful for all the publicity. Whereas, his...

The big news in The Episcopal Church (and, I suppose, in the Anglican Communion) is the Diocese of San Joaquin’s alleged “realignment” to be...

In light of the Diocese of San Joaquin’s reputed transfer from The Episcopal Church to the Southern Cone this past weekend, I find myself w...

This weekend, I watched the convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin on Anglican TV , as, with some jubilation, it changed its constitution ...

My friend and fellow parishioner at St. Paul’s, Mt. Lebanon , Jane Little, has written a reflection on the current situation in the Diocese ...

At the recent annual convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh held in Johnstown, Pa.—reports of the convention can be found here and here —B...

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...