Episcopalian priests

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - A Binghamton Episcopal Priest is celebrating 50 years of service to the Lord. A special mass was held on Saturday at Christ Church in Binghamton to mark the 50th anniversary of the ordination of The Reverend C. James Jones. Father Jim grew up Niagara Falls and, after spending ...

A retired priest whose Shelter Island home was targeted in a home invasion last month has died. Officials say 87-year-old Rev. Canon Paul Wancura, a retired Episcopal priest, passed away from his injuries sustained during the burglary. As News 12 has reported, Wancura was discovered tied up and ...

A Haywood County grand jury has indicted a former Episcopal priest from Waynesville on child sexual abuse charges. Howard Willard White Jr., who served at Waynesville's Grace Church in the Mountains for decades, now faces multiple felonies. The charges include first-degree forcible rape, second-degree forcible rape, ...

An ex-Episcopal priest imprisoned in Massachusetts for decades-old child sex crimes is now accused of sexually assaulting two children in the North Carolina mountains. A Haywood County grand jury has indicted 76-year-old Howard "Howdy" Willard White Jr., 76, on sex assault charges involving a girl ...

BINGHAMTON (WBNG) -- Father C. James Jones, a priest at Christ Episcopal Church, celebrated with the community Saturday morning. A special mass was held for him at the church. People from his former churches and people in the area came to bless him. "The kind of priest I am depended upon them," ...

He then pursued a PhD in Christian spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union while interning at St. Clement's in Berkeley and St. Alban's in Albany. He was ordained to the priesthood in January 2014 at St. John's Cathedral in Los Angeles. He previously served as the priest-in-charge at the Episcopal ...

McLoughlin, who has also dealt with his fair share of heinous criminals in his past career in law enforcement, said that he encourages anyone in his parish to come forward if they have any information on any priest or other member of the parish who is acting inappropriately, especially if they're harming ...

Bailey Fischer comes to Williams from Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit, N.J., where she currently serves as priest associate. ... in West Philadelphia in an African American Pentecostal tradition, participating in several other Protestant traditions before joining the Episcopal Church as a young adult.

The last service inside St. James the Great Episcopal Church in Newport Beach before it closed was held in June 2015. ... In a letter to the St. James congregation and its priest, the Rev. ... The facility, previously known as St. James the Great Episcopal Church, is now called St. James Episcopal Church.

That congregational majority, motivated by its opposition to the wider Episcopal denomination's election of an openly gay priest in New England to be a bishop and opposing the ordination of women to the priesthood, chose to occupy the historic Falls Church property and deny use to anyone aligning with ...

... serving as Catholic priests is not just rare, it's almost unheard of. In the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church — the predominant rite in the West — priests take a vow of celibacy and do not marry. Exceptions are few and happen on a case-by-case basis, such as a married Episcopal priest converting to ...

The Episcopal Church U.S.A. has done little to address alcohol abuse in its upper ranks, despite the 2014 death of a Baltimore cyclist killed in a ... to refrain from serving alcohol to minors and, when alcohol is used in social settings, to have a rector, vicar or priest on hand to monitor for signs of intoxication.

The victim of a home invasion at his Silver Beach residence who was found tied up has been identified as Reverend Paul Forsyth Wancura. The 87-year-old retired Episcopal priest, a long-time Island resident, was airlifted from Shelter Island via Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) helicopter around ...

An 87-year-old man may have been tied up for days before he was found bound in his Shelter Island home during a wellness check last week, police say. Rescuers airlifted him to Stony Brook University Hospital. Bishop Larry Provenzano of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island says the victim is a retired ...

The idea for Larkspur originally came from Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest in Nashville who had long been bothered by the high cost and pomp at funerals. "We need a place to bury like this, where it's your body in the ground — and all the stuff that they developed around all these false rituals that cost ...

William Persing, an Episcopal priest from the Church of the Good Shepherd in Hartford. The idea of creating a theater company — both Bakers were already experienced theater people — evolved out of the conversation with Persing, and they founded The Open Stage which had its first performance in ...

In 2010, the photojournalist Eugene Richards was hired to join the crew of Terrence Malick's “To the Wonder,” shooting in the town of Bartlesville, in northeastern Oklahoma … and finding real residents to interact with Bardem. To locate most of his subjects, Richards got the help of a local Episcopal priest, ...

In addition to his academic achievements the Harvard educated Page is an Episcopal priest, poet, author, photographer, martial artist and certified tennis teaching professional. If that weren't enough, on the weekends he sings and plays harmonica in a popular Michiana blues band called the Oblates of ...

'We don't excavate to prove the Bible true' — Utah priest going to Holy Land to pursue two passions: scriptural studies and archaeological digs ... it's all about truth — whether as an Episcopal priest uncovering wisdom from scriptural passages or as a seasoned archaeologist unearthing history from ancient ...

In the not so distant past, every parish wanted “their own priest” for sacramental, missional, administrative and teaching needs. There are now several parishes in The Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem using one priest for two parishes. The people in these parishes take on some of the responsibilities of ...

“Lots of priests and religious people tend to be introverted − I'm definitely that way. Thomas Merton has this quote — 'true faith is not afraid of other people' ... One thing that faith has allowed me to do is to open up and be present with other people and not to kind of hide in my own shell, that people are ...

Susan Berry Taylor of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church was right in the middle of it downtown. Both she and church member Bob Somes of Readfield, who was standing with her, had crosses of ash on their foreheads. Taylor, who is an artist as well as a priest, said she resisted the temptation to draw hearts ...

Since January, McIlmoyl has been the priest in charge at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Calistoga. The title is ... Keag said after the former priest in charge, Mary Goshert Ekanstam, retired, the church leadership looked for a priest, but “there's an extreme shortage of priests who can do part-time work. Lots of ...

“Christine has been a supply priest for St. Nicholas several times, filling in on Sundays, and now she will be involved in a more full-time capacity. She will be involved in pastoral care, church programs, special services, etc.” said Katherine Johnson a member of the nominating committee searching for ...

Keith Winton, an intern at St. Martin of Tours Episcopal Church in Omaha, is currently a software developer who has completed seminary and hopes to be ordained soon. BRENDAN ... His studies the past 10 years have given him the skills, training and knowledge to become a better priest. He's found that ...

Would-be priests themselves see that there are both pros and cons to joining the priesthood as married men. On one hand, married priests have a sounding board and moral encouragement at home in the form of their wives. Father Paul Sullins, a married Episcopal priest who converted to Catholicism, has ...

ROCK ISLAND — An Episcopal priest and a Lutheran pastor have quickly become “BFFs.” In fact, the Rev. Don Knowles invited his new “best friend forever,” the Rev. Roger Hungerford, to St. James Lutheran in Rock Island along with his entire All Saints Episcopal congregation. All Saints has moved its ...