Bishop Vono to Christ the King: "What's mine is mine, what's yours is mine too"
Bishop Vono to Christ the King: "What's mine is mine, what's yours is mine too"
Rector's reply: "Not so fast."
Mary Ann Mueller
Special Correspondent
www.virtueonline.org
Oct. 1, 2011
ALBUQUERQUE, NM---The mindset of the new bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande is: "What's mine is mine, what's yours in mine too," mirroring the take-all attitude of the larger Episcopal Church in his quest to make Christ the King Anglican Church pay what he thinks is their fair share of an outstanding diocesan apportionment.
"Not so fast" said the Rev. Roger Weber founding rector of Christ the King Anglican Church, who in 2009 walked away from St. Mark's-on-the-Mesa Episcopal Church leaving behind a $2 million plant including property, buildings, bank accounts, endowments and even the paperclips, to form a scripturally faithful ACNA parish.
Fast forward two years and The Rt. Rev. Michael Vono, the ninth bishop of the southwest Rio Grande diocese sent Fr. Weber a letter explaining that he and his diocesan council decided that the new ACNA congregation was culpable to pay four-fifths of St. Mark's $25,000 Fair Share obligation for the third quarter of 2009, responding to the time frame when Fr. Weber, and a majority of St. Mark's-on-the-Mesa congregants left St. Mark's, the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, and The Episcopal Church over theological differences.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Rector's reply: "Not so fast."
Mary Ann Mueller
Special Correspondent
www.virtueonline.org
Oct. 1, 2011
ALBUQUERQUE, NM---The mindset of the new bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande is: "What's mine is mine, what's yours in mine too," mirroring the take-all attitude of the larger Episcopal Church in his quest to make Christ the King Anglican Church pay what he thinks is their fair share of an outstanding diocesan apportionment."Not so fast" said the Rev. Roger Weber founding rector of Christ the King Anglican Church, who in 2009 walked away from St. Mark's-on-the-Mesa Episcopal Church leaving behind a $2 million plant including property, buildings, bank accounts, endowments and even the paperclips, to form a scripturally faithful ACNA parish.
Fast forward two years and The Rt. Rev. Michael Vono, the ninth bishop of the southwest Rio Grande diocese sent Fr. Weber a letter explaining that he and his diocesan council decided that the new ACNA congregation was culpable to pay four-fifths of St. Mark's $25,000 Fair Share obligation for the third quarter of 2009, responding to the time frame when Fr. Weber, and a majority of St. Mark's-on-the-Mesa congregants left St. Mark's, the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, and The Episcopal Church over theological differences.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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