Diocesan News

A police officer and a person who is homeless playing chess together isn’t something you would necessarily expect to see while walking down Tremont Street in downtown Boston. On the portico of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, however, this has become the new normal during the summer months thanks to the cathedral’s “Ministry of the Steps.”

Two vocational deacons and eight transitional deacons were ordained by Bishop Gayle E. Harris on Saturday, June 1 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry joined Bishop Barbara C. Harris and General Convention House of Deputies Vice President Byron Rushing on April 28 at Grace Church in New Bedford, Mass., for a candid panel conversation about racism and who is on the inside, who is on the outside and who is still on the margins of the church and society.

The Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, brought his "Way of Love" message to eastern Massachusetts in the first week of Eastertide, traveling the Diocese of Massachusetts from north to south over the course of four event-filled days of public preaching and gatherings with Episcopal Church ministries, groups and congregations from the Merrimack Valley to Cape Cod.