Gregory Venables

Archbishop Gregory Venables in San Diego

Posted 23 April 2008 - 10:49pm by David Turney

The Most Reverend Gregory Venables, Archbishop of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone and Diocesan of Argentina, will be in town briefly Wednesday, April 30th to meet with area clergy and then worship at a special mass to be held at St. Anne's Anglican Church in Oceanside.

Archbishop Venables has graciously taken on provisional oversight of several clergy and congregations in San Diego who have wanted to remain Anglican while "walking apart" from The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego and the overall direction of the American Episcopal Church (TEC).  (read more...)

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Prayers please for Archbishop Venables’ family

Posted 11 March 2008 - 8:39am by David Turney

Thanks for bringing this request to our attention, Anne.  A quick Google search turns up this recent story of three lynched policemen in central Bolivia, which may or may not be related to this specific request, but certainly paints a clear picture of conditions there.
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Sabbath Healings Have Got To Stop!

Posted 27 February 2008 - 8:50am by David Turney

As long as canon law is followed to the last letter, it's OK to set fire to your own house and walk away, but if a fire truck pulls up and parks in a passenger-loading-only zone, then somebody had better issue that truck a parking ticket pronto.

File this little flap under, "the kind of things we hear from [The Episcopal Church] towards the end of a campaign." (to adapt a recent quote from Obama about the Clinton campaign).

From The Living Church. See comments on T19. Bold emphases mine.

In a statement given to a reporter from The Living Church, a spokesman for Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone said the provincial leadership was aware of the constitutional impediments before voting unanimously to issue its “emergency, temporary and pastoral” invitation to affiliate. “Both the House of Bishops of the Southern Cone and the General Synod decided to go ahead because of the nature of the emergency,” the spokesman said.  (read more...)

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