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Six new diocesan staff members are now in place. The Rev. Dr. Edie Dolnikowski has been hired as the new canon for ordained vocations and will begin full time on Feb. 25.  She has been the associate rector at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley…

[Episcopal Public Policy Network] The following message comes from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori:  The United States has witnessed far too many public shootings in recent months and years. Far too many lives have been cut short or maimed by both random and targeted acts of gun…

A Diocese of Massachusetts delegation, led by Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, spent two weeks in December 2012 traveling in Tanzania and Uganda to visit mission partners there and see firsthand how health care and orphanage projects supported by this diocese are making a difference. “Our trip…

Following the Jan. 15 announcement from Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE calling for the election of his successor, the diocesan Standing Committee has issued a letter to the diocese, the text of which appears here. Jan. 17, 2013 Dear Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, On Jan. 15, Bishop Tom Shaw…