{"id":561,"date":"2008-09-20T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2008-09-20T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T16:06:58","slug":"the-diocese-of-niagara-down-and-out-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-down-and-out-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese  of Niagara: down and out in Canada."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Dear diocese, I know you are $777,000 in the hole, but perhaps you should cut back on Bishop Michael Bird\u2019s <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-590 alignright\" title=\"birdie\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/birdie2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"254\" \/>salary a bit so you can pay your bills at St. Hilda&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>These bills:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p>Brian Ruttan, the priest in charge at St. Hilda\u2019s, in order to boost his Sunday morning congregation over the zero mark, took out a large ad in the Oakville Beaver. This was remarkably successful: the next Sunday Brian had a congregation of one. The only problem is, he didn\u2019t pay the Beaver, so now the real ANiC St. Hilda\u2019s \u2013 which has had a long standing relationship with the paper \u2013 is receiving repeated requests for payment. Come on, Bri, pay up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/home.cogeco.ca\/~david.jenkins\/Toad\/beaverad2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>St. Hilda\u2019s proper (ANiC) has to rent space for its Sunday morning worship. The judge in the last court appearance ordered that the Diocese of Niagara and St. Hilda\u2019s must share the building costs; to this day, the diocese has paid nothing to contribute to the running of the building. Which means St. Hilda\u2019s proper has not only to fork out for rental space Sunday mornings, but also pay to keep a  nice clean building for the diocese to occupy \u2013 with its congregation of zero.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related posts <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/08\/the-diocese-of-niagara-a-tale-of-hypocrisy-and-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/18\/diocese-of-niagara-privately-declares-churches-%E2%80%98non-viable%E2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear diocese, I know you are $777,000 in the hole, but perhaps you should cut back on Bishop Michael Bird\u2019s salary a bit so you can pay your bills at St. Hilda&#8217;s. These bills: Brian Ruttan, the priest in charge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-niagara-down-and-out-in-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,110],"tags":[2059],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-diocese-of-niagara","tag-bishops-gone-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}