Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

An article in yesterday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described an open letter from laypeople in the Diocese of Pittsburgh supporting Bishop Ro...

NPR carried a report yesterday of another school shooting, this one at a Baton Rouge vocational school. The reporter rather clumsily explain...

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...