Pastor's theft case causes hurt, sadness at Summerlin church
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Roman Catholic Church members learned Sunday that their pastor -- who admitted stealing $650,000 from the parish -- will not be back. The parishioners wept. "I hope you can all...
View ArticleVegas priest arrives at Texas federal prison
LAS VEGAS - (AP) -- A Roman Catholic priest from surrendered Friday at a federal prison in Texas to serve his sentence for siphoning $650,000 from his northwest Las Vegas parish to support a video...
View ArticleEpiscopal diocese settlement gives Uptown parish full title to properties
The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has reached a settlement with Shepherd's Heart Fellowship in Uptown, a parish of the rival Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh that functions primarily as a ministry to...
View ArticleEx-Episcopal bishop for W. Texas named to Catholic post
SANTA FE, N.M. — The former Episcopal Church bishop for New Mexico and west Texas has been named to a Roman Catholic Church post overseeing former Episcopalians across the U.S. Jeffrey Steenson...
View ArticleEpiscopalian dispute goes to Conn. Supreme Court
HARTFORD, Conn. - Lawyers for a local parish and the Episcopal Church clashed before the Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday over whether the parish can keep its building and land after breaking...
View ArticleSummerlin church weeps over loss of pastor, theft case
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Roman Catholic Church members learned Sunday that their pastor -- who admitted stealing $650,000 from the parish -- will not be back. The parishioners wept. "I hope you can all...
View ArticleFirst Pres considers split from national organization
First Presbyterian Church Colorado Springs will vote Sunday on whether to proceed with efforts to leave its national organization. The church, one of the first in Colorado Springs, was founded in 1872....
View ArticleA Cathedral Wedding
By Jeff Walton on 1.24.11 @ 6:07AM The New Year's Day lesbian wedding of an Episcopal seminary president to a high ranking diocesan official has accelerated the long-running controversy over same-sex...
View ArticlePriest with gambling habit facing prison in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer planned to ask a federal judge on Friday to reject a call for almost three years of prison time and instead give probation to a Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleAnti-gay ordination stance may end career
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The conservative leader of the Episcopal diocese of South Carolina, which has roots stretching to before the American Revolution, is the first bishop facing discipline from the...
View ArticleRector of Calvary Episcopal in Pittsburgh retires
When the Rev. Harold T. Lewis became rector of the mostly white and wealthy Calvary Episcopal Church in Shadyside in 1996, the city was reeling from racial turmoil, and Father Lewis, who is...
View ArticleRenegade Episcopal rector to be ordained Roman Catholic church
The Rev. David Ousley was baptized a Methodist in 1951, was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church in 1979, and left it in 1999 for the Anglican Church in America. And on Saturday, this 61-year-old...
View ArticleSC bishop being investigated amid Episcopal schism
CHARLESTON, S.C. The conservative leader of the Episcopal diocese of South Carolina, which has roots stretching to before the American Revolution, is the first bishop facing discipline from the...
View ArticlePastor pleads guilty to theft from Catholic church in Summerlin
A high-ranking Las Vegas Catholic priest admitted in federal court Friday to stealing $650,000 from a Summerlin parish, including funds from its votive candles, gift shop and church mission. Monsignor...
View ArticleGambling priest gets 3 years prison in Vegas theft
A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Friday to three years and one month in federal prison and ordered to repay $650,000 he acknowledged siphoning from his northwest Las Vegas parish to support his...
View ArticleDenver Diocese's hope for a Latino archbishop may require a miracle
More than half of Catholic Archdiocese of Denver is Latino, and observers say it would make great sense for the successor to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput to be Hispanic. However, there is a shortage of...
View ArticlePriest with gambling addiction pleads guilty to stealing $400K from church
A Roman Catholic priest looted more than $400,000 from his Roselle church while he served as pastor, then gambled away much of the stolen cash at riverboat casinos, DuPage County prosecutors said...
View ArticleChrist Church, Savannah property dispute with Diocese of Georgia (Episcopal)
Worldwide, Anglicans who were upper class women of England mostly–100 years ago–are today on average an African Black woman of about 21, poor, with one child. It is a very different world for Anglicans...
View ArticleEx-Anglican Catholics to welcome new leader
HOUSTON — Father Jeffrey Steenson's colleagues joke that during the past several years, he's gone from a church heretic to a hierarch. Even though he has been a Catholic priest for only about three...
View ArticleAnglican Diocese of the Great Lakes inducts bishop
The official installation of Bishop Roger C. Ames as the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes signals the continuing development of the theologically conservative parish network...
View ArticleColorado church: Dissident Anglican pastor won't fight theft count; other...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A dissident Anglican church in Colorado says its pastor has agreed not to contest a theft charge after he was accused...
View ArticlePastor ordered to pay back almost $100,000 to his church
COLORADO SPRINGS — A Colorado Springs pastor accused of stealing from his former church has been ordered to...
View ArticleProsecutors seeking restitution from pastor of breakaway Colorado Springs church
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors say they are seeking about $291,000 in restitution from the pastor of a dissident Anglican church. Don Armstrong...
View ArticleRuling due on restitution in pastor's theft case
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A pastor accused of stealing almost $400,000 from his former church to pay for his children's education...
View ArticleEx-Episcopal priest from Colorado Springs pleads no contest to theft
Pueblo special prosecutor Stephen Jones announced Friday that former Episcopal priest Donald Armstrong, ex-pastor of Grace Church in Colorado Springs, has entered a "no-contest" plea to felony theft in...
View ArticleChurch: Dissident Anglican won't fight theft count
DENVER—The pastor of a dissident Anglican church has agreed not to contest a theft charge after he was accused of stealing about $400,000 from his former church to fund his children's education. The...
View ArticlePriest pleads no-contest in Colorado Springs theft case
Pueblo Special prosecutor Stephen Jones announced today that former Episcopalian priest Donald Armstrong, ex-pastor of Grace Church in Colorado Springs, has entered a "no-contest" plea to felony theft...
View ArticlePriest and Pueblo attorney general interpret plea agreement in different ways
The Rev. Don Armstrong had faced 20 counts of felony theft. Rev. Don Armstrong of Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Staff photo by Brian Brainerd--> The Rev. Don Armstrong, who founded St....
View ArticlePlea deal for priest accused of theft confounds, confuses
The Rev. Don Armstrong, who founded St. George's Anglican Church after he and his congregation lost the battle for the Grace Church building in Colorado Springs, called the disposition Friday of his...
View ArticleEpiscopal diocese wins a legal round
The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has won round two in a fight with the rival Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh over $20 million in assets. An appeals court Wednesday upheld a decision that took the...
View ArticlePriest from Vegas with $650K gambling habit arrives at Texas federal prison...
LAS VEGAS - A Roman Catholic priest from Las Vegas surrendered Friday at a federal prison in Texas to serve his sentence for siphoning $650,000 from his northwest Las Vegas parish to support a video...
View ArticleSt. Paul's will offer guidance to St. David's on how to rebuild in Peters
Andrew Russell | Tribune-Review The rebuilding of St. David's Episcopal Church congregation in Peters will be led by a team of priests from a neighboring parish, including the Rev. Chris McInnes and...
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