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Article: Bishop's work never done: Episcopal leader of Chicago diocese to step down, but quest to heal church goes on.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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Byline: Manya A. Brachear
Jun. 22--Even before his job officially began in March 1999, Chicago's Episcopal Bishop William Persell pleaded to save the life of a man on Death Row.
At his first diocesan convention in the fall of 1999, he encouraged a call for Episcopalians to get handguns and assault weapons out of their homes.
And when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2002, an action he loudly condemned, he threw open the doors to St. James Cathedral so thousands of people, regardless of faith, could pray for peace.
But when conservative Episcopalians in 2003 began turning away from their church after Persell and others affirmed the election of ...
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