Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? Opinion Re: (May 28) What’s happened to the Holy Trinity Anglican Church is a real shame. It’s not a sudden catastrophe, they’ve known that there are real problems with the building for many years. The current costs of the repairs is expected to be around $7 million dollars.
When things go bad, the only recourse for the parishioners is a public appeal for help from individuals to all levels of government. What they don’t ever seem to get is help from their own diocese. “The congregation of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, which is designated as both a National Historic Site of Canada and as a protected historical building in Winnipeg, has asked the Bishop of Rupert’s Land for permission to put the property up for sale,” and he has granted that permission.
The Bishop of Rupert’s Land, Geoff Woodcroft has, however, stipulated a large number of conditions for the sale that amount to fixing the church and keeping everything exactly the way it is. Or so it seems to me. One of the things the bishop is not saying is that there will be any help from the church to cover the costs of restoring this building.
Now, I know that churches throughout the world and throughout time have maintained that individual parishes are on their own financially. It seems, at least to a layman, that the the church is a one-way money str.
