The diocese needs a new roof for its cathedral and BC taxpayers will, unwittingly, be paying a part of the bill. This means that the diocese’s prophetic voice, whose clarion call is heard most clearly during the annual gay pride parade, is unlikely to be decoupled from the state sponsored zeitgeist any time soon.
From here:
Earlier this afternoon, the province of British Columbia announced it will give $1 million to Christ Church Cathedral’s building campaign, which is raising money to repair the cathedral’s roof, add a new bell tower and expand its community outreach kitchen.
“This generous grant recognizes the place that Christ Church Cathedral holds in Vancouver and British Columbia,” said Bishop Melissa Skelton of the diocese of New Westminster, “and will help ensure that the cathedral community continues to play a significant role in meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the people of Vancouver.”
To be paid in 30 chunks of silver, no doubt.
” “and will help ensure that the cathedral community continues to play a significant role in meeting the spiritual and physical needs of the people of Vancouver.”
It sounds more like the people of Vancouver will continue to play a significant role in meeting the physical needs of the cathedral community.
Be sure that there are bishops shaking and drooling with $$ in their eyes-because after all, thats what counts the most right?
And the Premier is a member of said church.
Yes, this fact was part of her election campaign.
a) As there is no formal separation of church and state in Canada, I guess this is legal.
b) I can only assume that the government justified this by pointing out that the Cathedral and diocese are not really a religious organization (they are “spiritual but not religious”) and are thus a secular cultural organization like the art gallery.
c) I also presume that this establishes a precedent by which the government has more legislative control over the diocese.
d) I hope the government is ready to respond to similar requests from all the other religions and churches.
This simply confirms the fact that the Diocese of New Westminster worships whatever society seems appropriate regardless of the Word and it totally rejects both the authority of Scripture and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ. If that were not so the Diocese would never have legally stolen properties to which they made NO contribution and would never have evictted orthodox Christians and their orthodox clergy from their churches. Undoubtedly with this so-called grant you can be assured the Diocese will NEVER criticize the provincial Liberals.
This can be looked upon as the sale of the cathedral to the state for one million dollars.