Diocesan News

Former Episcopal priest Franklin E. Huntress Jr. was arrested on June 30 in Marblehead and arraigned on July 7 in Hillsborough County Superior Court in New Hampshire for felonious sexual assault.  The July 7 statement of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in response follows:In October…

The Episcopal Church's revised clergy disciplinary canons (Title IV) went into effect on July 1.Clergy disciplinary matters were formerly brought to the bishop or the Standing Committee of the diocese.  Now, all matters are reported to an intake officer, initiating a process toward resolution…

Matthew Cavanaugh Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori addresses ECM's Annual Meeting. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori joined 560 Episcopalians in the Diocese of Massachusetts on June 7 to celebrate the work of…

Will it be the Very Rev. Peter Elliott in Bruins black and gold at Vancouver’s Christ Church Cathedral on a Sunday soon?  Or the Very Rev. John P. Streit Jr. of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston wearing Canucks blue and green? …

Boston’s common cathedral doesn’t have walls or stained glass windows, but the vistas that it provides are unparalleled. “Common cathedral is the name of the Ecclesia Ministries’ worshiping community, which is primarily a ministry among the homeless on Boston Common,” explained the Rev. Bob…

Interim executive director Kelsey Young on May 24 offered her resignation to the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center Board of Directors, effective June 24, to take a new position at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J. "As the center's guest services manager and then its conference…