{"id":22499,"date":"2015-02-01T23:26:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T04:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22499"},"modified":"2015-02-01T23:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T04:27:55","slug":"diocese-of-quebec-facing-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-quebec-facing-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Quebec facing extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a Quebec priest, if the diocese does not change<\/em> it will die; he doesn\u2019t elaborate on whether this will be a good or a bad thing, relying, presumably, on the affable temperament of his readers to lead them to think the latter. I am not affable.<\/p>\n

His solutions are to become more ecumenical, bilingual and accepting of all the gay people longing to attend Anglican churches. Rev. Yves Samson is himself gay and seems at a loss to explain why he is already not attracting more sexually like-minded individuals. Surely it can\u2019t be because gay men and women have no more interest in an ecumenical Anglican eco-cult than heterosexuals.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As Rev. Yves Samson speaks to his congregation in the Quebec town of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, two things stand out: the bilingualism of the sermon and the dearth of parishioners.<\/p>\n

Samson holds nothing back when he says that, without radical change, the Anglican Diocese of Quebec could soon be extinct.<\/p>\n

“If we want to keep going on (the old) track we will all die,” Samson says in an interview after his French and English sermon to a room full of near-empty pews in the St. James Anglican Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The numbers are interesting:<\/p>\n

Some numbers about the Anglican Diocese of Quebec, which serves a large part of the province, including Quebec City, Sherbrooke and Trois-Rivi\u00e8res:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n