{"id":18145,"date":"2012-12-06T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=18145"},"modified":"2012-12-06T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T22:04:24","slug":"bishop-dennis-drainville-has-an-ingenious-scheme-to-resuscitate-the-diocese-of-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bishop-dennis-drainville-has-an-ingenious-scheme-to-resuscitate-the-diocese-of-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Dennis Drainville has an ingenious scheme to resuscitate the Diocese of Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Bishop Dennis Drainville his diocese, the Diocese of Quebec, is dying<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Rt. Rev. Dennis Drainville said his diocese was \u201cteetering on the verge of extinction\u201d according to an account given by the church\u2019s official newspaper.<\/p>\n

Of the diocese\u2019s 82 congregations, 50 were childless and 35 congregations had an average age of 75. These graying congregations often had no more than 10 people in church on Sundays, he said. \u201cThe critical mass isn\u2019t there, there\u2019s no money anymore,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a flash of brilliance rarely seen illuminating the dimly sputtering synapses of a Canadian Anglican bishop, Drainville has decided that the answer to replenishing his childless congregations is to start blessing homosexual couples<\/a>. Because their couplings produce so many offspring.<\/p>\n

Same-sex couples in the diocese of Quebec will soon be able to receive a blessing of their civil union, according to the Anglican diocese\u2019s newspaper, the Gazette.<\/p>\n

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In his charge to synod, Drainville expressed his intention to provide a rite of blessing and pastoral support for persons living in \u201ccommitted, same-gender relationships.\u201d This blessing is not a marriage, he emphasized, but rather \u201cthe blessing of civil union that has already taken place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Bishop Dennis Drainville his diocese, the Diocese of Quebec, is dying: The Rt. Rev. Dennis Drainville said his diocese was \u201cteetering on the verge of extinction\u201d according to an account given by the church\u2019s official newspaper. Of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[492,2113,1386],"class_list":["post-18145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-quebec","tag-bishop-dennis-drainville","tag-diocese-of-quebec","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}