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Davy Jones...Where Are You Going?

The Diocese of Pittsburgh!!

WE therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the Sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who at his coming shall change our vile body, that it may be like his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.

(See any Dolphins down there?)

Festina Lente, Mater!

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Resolve!!

WHEREAS, the 140th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh accepted the Windsor Report (2004), and its corollary documents, the Lambeth 1.10 text (1998) and the Dromantine Communiqué (2005), as the basis on which this Diocese, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the Anglican Communion can go forward together; and

WHEREAS, said Annual Convention called upon Pittsburgh’s deputies to the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church to do everything in their power to help that Convention make a clear statement of submission to the teaching of, and a clear statement of intent to abide by the requirements of the said Windsor Report and its corollary documents; and

WHEREAS, said Annual Convention declared that, should the 75th General Convention determine to continue its “walk apart” from the Anglican Communion, by its failure to accept unreservedly the Windsor Report and its corollary documents or to commit to a church life consonant with them, the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh will stand with all Anglican Churches, Dioceses, and Provinces that hold and maintain the “Historic Faith, Doctrine, Sacrament and Discipline of the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church” whatever the costs or actions required to do so; and

WHEREAS, the Bishop and Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh recognize that the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church has elected to walk apart from the Anglican Communion through its failure to submit to the call, the spirit or the requirements of the Windsor Report; and

WHEREAS, the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has been and continues to be a member of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America as well as a constituent member of the worldwide Anglican Communion in full and unimpaired communion with the See of Canterbury and those churches, dioceses, and provinces that uphold and propagate the historic Anglican Faith and Order; and

WHEREAS, the Archbishop of Canterbury in light of the actions of General Convention 2006 has written about the future of the Anglican Communion as having both “constituent” and “associated” members, as well as about “ordered and mutually respectful separation between ‘constituent’ and ‘associated’ elements” within local Churches, consistent with the stated aim of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh to be a constituent member of the Anglican Communion as provided for in the Constitution of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and,

WHEREAS, the Bishop and Standing Committee believe it is necessary for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh to disassociate itself from those actions of the 75th General Convention which constitute a decision of the Episcopal Church to walk apart from the Anglican Communion.

RESOLVED, that the Bishop and Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh in good faith hereby join with the other dioceses of the Episcopal Church who are appealing to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primates of the Anglican Communion, and the Panel of Reference for immediate alternative Primatial oversight and pastoral care so that a unifying solution might be found to preserve an authentic Anglican community of witness within the United States of America and provide pastoral and apostolic care to biblically orthodox Anglicans in this country regardless of geographical location; and

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, pending final ratification by its 141st Annual Convention, withdraws its consent, pursuant to Article VII of the Constitution of the Episcopal Church, to be included in the Third Province of the Episcopal Church, seeking emergence of a new Tenth Province of the Episcopal Church which is fully Windsor compliant, positioned with that part of the Episcopal Church determined to maintain constituent status in the Anglican Communion.

RESOLVED FURTHER, that the Bishop and Standing Committee commit to work with and care for all the congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh to prosper their local mission regardless of whether they remain in “constituent” status or might elect otherwise.

Old Gray Lady Going Down?

In a letter to the editor of the New York Times published on Tuesday, Treasury Secretary John Snow expressed his disgust with the paper: "The New York Times' decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the security of Americans and freedom-loving people worldwide," Snow wrote.

"In choosing to expose this program, despite repeated pleas from high-level officials on both sides of the aisle, including myself, the Times undermined a highly successful counter-terrorism program and alerted terrorists to the methods and sources used to track their money trails." President Bush has called publication of the story "disgraceful." And some members of Congress, including Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) and Sen. James Bunning (R-Ky.), have accused the New York Times of outright treason -- and they're demanding a federal investigation. "That the press wouldn't have better sense than to leak critical information on terrorists so that they know what we're doing -- that scares the devil out of me," Bunning told reporters on Tuesday.

Civilising the Saracen

Next step: A Guinness and a Roast Beef Sandwich

Too Much Light

It was a mighty snug resort, that Sydney-side hotel:
A snug resort where fellows dined "not wisely, but too well";
The boarders all had gone to bed, and other men departed,
When Pat suggested to his pal 'twas nearly time they started.


They drifted to the closing bar, and asked the sleepy waiter
For two cigars,to light 'em home before the hour grew later;
Pat lit his; while his chum exclaimed, "Ole chappie, gimme light!
I don't know how you're feeling, but I'm very, very tight!"


... Tis very hard to get a light"-he lurched against the bar,
And most appealingly remarked "Which is the right cigar?
'Tis difficult to fix it; you guess, p'r'aps, what I mean;
I know you're only smoking one, but I can see fifteen!"
by Harry ("Breaker") Morant

Razor Boy

I hear you are singing a song of the past
I see no tears
I know that you know it may be the last
For many years
You'd gamble or give anything
To be in with the better half
But how many friends must I have
To begin with to make you laugh

Will you still have a song to sing
When the razor boy comes
And take your fancy things away
Will you still be singing it
On that cold and windy day

You know that the coming is so close at hand
You feel all right
I guess only women in cages can stand
This kind of night
I guess only women in cages
Can play down
The things they lose
You think no tomorrow will come
When you lay down
You can't refuse

"Sniffing for Tidbits"

PB: Never Studied Gender in Vertebrates, Unaware of Soteriology

COLUMBUS, OHIO (6/21/06)-While addressing a morning Eucharist at the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop-elect Katherine Jefferts Schori declared, "Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation. And you and I are His children."

Dispatch: Is Guy Fawkes on the Floor At This Time?

"And I am not going to sit here and listen to you bad mouth the entire United States of America!"

Link to all debate on The Resolution. Warning: May cause uncontrollable fits of rage, dropsy, falling sickness, fever, drowsiness or St Vitus Dance. If an erection persists for more than 4 hours, please consult a physician.

GenCon06 Shows 'Bond of Affection' For Southern Cone

...And Waltz Me Around By The Bishop!

Conn Smythe!!!

"Day of the Dauphin"

Bishop Jefferts Schori is an evolutionist, not only in philosophy and theology, but in her training and career. She studied the evolution of squids and octopi as an oceanographer. And as a priest and bishop, Jefferts Schori affirms the changing nature of God's spirit in the creation. I asked her about how her work in the theory of evolution impacts her theology of the Holy Spirit. "I believe in mystery and I believe God is always at work," she said. "Evolution is no problem for me. That's how I understand creation occurring."

So Bishop Jefferts Schori went North on Front Street from the convention hall on Friday, just two days before her election, and turned left on Gay Street. She entered the doors of the historic Trinity Episcopal Church, founded in 1817 by the great presiding bishop Philander Chase. There she joined in a Eucharist sponsored by the homosexual lobby Integrity with over 1,000 gay and pro-gay Episcopalians. So I asked her why she went. "I went to church," she said.

"And do you have second thoughts about having gone?" If she hadn't second thoughts, she might violate her own principle. She would be confident in a certain belief. So what did the Presiding Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church say?

"I never have second thoughts about going to church."

Interview by Hans Zeiger, title and link by Quilty

'When the players are all dead, there need none to be blamed' (V.I.323) Or, Puck This

Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

Saint Jude Pray for Us

No Fool Here

Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!

Check, please....

"Gene has accelerated the discussion," said the Rev. Ed Bacon, the rector of All Saints parish in Pasadena, Calif. "We could not have invented a better public strategy than what the Holy Spirit came up with. Gene embodies the Word."

So They Win It in Edmonton...

You Let The PovertyNeck Hillbillies Down, Ben!

NASHVILLE -- The PovertyNeck Hillbillies are often referred to as the unofficial band of the 2006 NFL world champion Pittsburgh Steelers because of their Pittsburgh roots.
The band had just announced that Steeler Ben Roethlisberger was going to appear in their upcoming video for their single, "Mr. Right Now," when they heard that the quarterback was involved in a collision on his motorcycle Monday morning. Roethlisberger underwent seven hours of surgery by four surgeons.
PovertyNeck Hillbillies fiddle player Chris Higbee said the band is praying for Roethlisberger's full recovery. They are going to wait as long as they can on the video, so that the quarterback can participate as he wanted to, Higbee said.

For all we know he might 'relax'--helmetless--to the Dixie Chicks.


In Fayette, we'd rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother on an SI Hayakawa, college boy!

Smarten Up!

Message for General Convention from the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury Greetings to you all in Christ's name as you meet to pray and deliberate about the life and witness of your church and the demands of God's Kingdom.

May God grant you discernment as you meet and listen to each other in patience and love. As all those involved will be acutely aware, this General Convention takes place in a climate of intense and perhaps rather oppressive attention worldwide.

At the meeting last week of the Bishops of the Church of England, we recognized the pressure under which you meet, and committed ourselves to praying more deeply and more constantly for all of you during these days.

Please be assured of our loving concern for the Episcopal Church and our hopes that we in the Anglican Communion may learn again to walk with each other more trustfully.

The recommendations of the Windsor Report will be much in your minds and your deliberations, and I appreciate the work your Commissions and Committees have done in responding to the Windsor Process. I hope that the theological vision there set out in the Report of the ground and character of our communion in Christ will be clearly before you.

We cannot survive as a Communion of churches without some common convictions about what it is to live and to make decisions as the Body of Christ; Windsor is not the end of the story, but it sets out a positive picture of what that might imply as together we strive to serve the mission of God.

We thank God for all that the Episcopal Church has contributed over the years to our fellowship and commend you to the One "who is able to establish you according to...the proclamation of Jesus Christ" (Rom.16.25).

Grace be with you all.

+Rowan Cantuar

Link To Video and Ongoing Story

Syl Apps Sez...

Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one, too! Golly Moses those Canes are good.

One goalie down, who will step up to replace Roloson?

Ned Braden asks, "Is the answer Jesus?"

Viva Mexico! Telemundo la Dominga

AP: A leading US Jewish group has written to German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to take a tough stance against any plans by football-mad President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the World Cup. The head of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote to Germany's leader on Monday after Iranian officials were quoted by media as saying their president would attend the football fiesta in Germany if Iran's team advances to the second stage. Pffffft. Beat Mexico?! Goooooooo-aalllllllll!

Ecclesiastical Polity

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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away."--PK Dick

Like That Bakelite in My Hand

Click Title for a blast of 'Where Were You?' Nostalgia

Bergeron Wins Lady Byng, Game for 'Canes!

In Walked Bud...

Old Time Hockey!

The Pseudo Areopagite

Supernal Triad, Deity above all essence, knowledge and goodness; Guide of Christians to Divine Wisdom; direct our path to the ultimate summit of your mystical knowledge, most incomprehensible, most luminous and most exalted, where the pure, absolute and immutable mysteries of theology are veiled in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence, outshining all brilliance with the intensity of their Darkness, and surcharging our blinded intellects with the utterly impalpable and invisible fairness of glories surpassing all beauty.

"They will go through bone like butter!"

BBC: A north Wales farmer is recovering in hospital after he was mauled by a 47-stone (298 kg) pig. Geraint Roberts, 49, was trying to move the Landrace boar into its pen in Brynsiencyn, when it attacked him. The pig pinned him against a tractor and bit him on the legs, back and left arm. One bite nearly severed an artery. The farmer's wife Nerys stopped the attack by turning a hose on the pig. Mr Roberts has undergone seven hours of surgery at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor.