{"id":11,"date":"2010-06-10T14:07:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/06\/virginia-supremes-send-cana-epusa-back-to-court.html"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:07:10","slug":"virginia-supremes-send-cana-epusa-back-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/06\/virginia-supremes-send-cana-epusa-back-to-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Supremes Send CANA, ECUSA back to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks to this non-lawyer that the breakaway Anglicans in Virginia
\n(i.e. the Convocation of Anglicans in North America–CANA) were too
\nclever by half in removing the hem of their garment from the Episcopal
\nChurch USA (TEC) and affiliating with the Anglican Church of Nigeria. In
\nruling<\/a>
\nagainst them today, the Virginia Supreme Court held that while a
\ndivision in a diocese can be ugly and contentious, only if you
\nconstitute a bona fide division of TEC are you entitled to hold on to
\nyour buildings. And you can’t be a division of TEC if you belong to the
\nChurch of Nigeria. Q.E.D. <\/p>\n

So it’s back to court the parties go.
\nOver at the Episcopal
\nCafe<\/a>, Jim Naughton’s immediate take is that this bodes very well
\nfor the Virginia diocese and TEC. That’s because when it comes to
\ndeciding on the merits a property dispute involving a hierarchical
\nchurch, Virginia case law is all on the side of the hierarchy. I presume
\nthat in CANA-land, there is much gnashing of teeth and regret that they
\ndidn’t just create themselves as an association of dissident
\ncongregations within the diocese. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. History
\ndoesn’t allow do-overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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