- All Records
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Date
- 1972 November 10
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Record Type
- Press Release
- Text
- Toronto hospitals are performing abortions "without restriction," according to a prominent official of the Anglican Church of Canada.
- Rev. Arthur Brown, rector of a large Toronto parish and a member of the National Executive Council of General Synod made the charge in connection with deliberations on a forthcoming report by a Task Force on Human Life.
- The report is not expected to be completed until the end of 1973 and Father Brown said he and other pastors are impatiently awaiting it for guidance on new and complex moral situations.
- He told bishops and other delegates from across Canada to the executive council that "all kinds of girls are going through our hospitals in metropolitan Toronto being aborted of pregnancies." His information, he said, comes from nurses and other hospital staff.
- Father Brown claimed that staffs in some Toronto hospitals are aborting without restriction "under the guise of it being good for the total health of the mother."
- Five years ago, he said, one Toronto hospital listed 28 abortions. Last year, the number was over 300, "ten times as many, or more."
- He said "doctors are compromised by the destruction of human life" in this abortion situation. On becoming doctors, he said, they swear an oath to preserve life but due to the present situation "they are placed in a major compromised situation."
- Father Brown said nursing staffs are upset over having to clean up after induced miscarriages and they come to him for guidance.
- Archbishop E.W. Scott, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada expressed deep sympathy towards the position described by Father Brown but said the task force's report will take another year due to the complexities of the issues involved.
- "It's becoming obvious that people are feeling a need for help in making decisions in these areas," Archbishop Scott said.
- "Each case has to be evaluated in terms of the health of the mother and the possible health of the child, and not only on the question of the sanctity of life but also in the area of the quality of life."
- Archbishop Scott emphasized that hospital boards deciding abortion cases should include persons representing moral issues as well as medical issues.
- Besides abortion, the task force is studying the whole concept of when life begins and ends in relation to euthanasia, transplants, biological engineering and the vast implications of discoveries in biochemistry. Archbishop Scott said the study has become increasingly complex as it delves into the legal, medical, moral and social aspects of life. The task force is composed of lawyers, doctors, research scientists, housewives, social workers, theologians and others. It is also consulting with similarly concerned groups in the United States, Britain and other parts of the world.
- A progress report will be presented to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada at its biennial meeting next May in Regina.
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- Subjects
- Abortion - Canada
- Abortion - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Task Force on Human Life
- Bioethics - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Medical ethics - Canada
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Brown, Arthur D. (Arthur Durrant), 1926-2011
Amid a health-care system 'in crisis', chaplains seek more support, recognition from church : Natoinal gathering spurs motions to give spiritual care official ministry status
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article44225
- Author
- Puddister, Matthew
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2022 December
- Volume
- 148
- Issue
- 10
- Page
- 3
- Notes
- The second national gathering of Anglican health care spiritual care professionals met from 11-14 October 2022 in Mississauga Ontario attended by 18 chaplains. The first Anglican health-care chaplains' national gathering took place in 2019. Chris Salstrom who attended both gatherings noted "Many of the church's health-care chaplains say they're exhausted by the pandemic and have felt unsupported -- but some hope this could change with recognition of their network as an official ministry of the church. 'Who do the healers go to when they need healing ?'", she asked. "In a report she presented to the gathering Salstrom described a chronic understaffing situation across Canada, even before the pandemic, that has led many spiritual health practitioners to retire, change jobs or leave the profession entirely". "The Rev. Eileen Scully, director of Faith, Worship and Ministry (FWM) for the Anglican Church of Canada, and organizer of the gathering, said that as of 2022, the health-care chaplains' group had a membership of 70". "At the gathering, chaplains worshipped together and shared what they had learned during the pandemic about grief and pastoral presence. Sarah George works nights shifts as a spiritual care professional at St. Michael's and Sunnybrook hospitals in Toronto. Both are part-time jobs with closer to 'full-time hours', she said". "Rejoice Anthony, who started work in July [2022] at St. Jude's Anglican Home in Vancouver and also serves as on-call staff for Vancouver General Hospital's pastoral care team, works with elders suffering from dementia and their families. She says she finds morning prayer essential. Earlier this year, to process being the last person a dying patient ever saw shortly after their introduction, she also began what she calls 'pilgrim walking'". "The Rev. Carolyn Herold, who works part-time as a parish priest at St. Laurence Anglican Church in Calgary and part-time as a chaplain for Alberta Health Services, said chaplains continue to find great fulfillment in their work despite the difficult times facing health care in Canada. ,,, 'We get the privilege of seeing people as they truly are at their most vulnerable point in their life and seeing God moving in them in whatever way that is. That is such an incredible privilege'".
- Article includes photograph with all 18 attendees identified by name.
- Subjects
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Healing - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Health - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Spiritual healing - Anglican Church of Canada
- COVID-19 (Disease) - Canada
- COVID-19 (Disease) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Terminal care - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Pastoral ministry - Anglican Church of Canada
- Salstrom, Chris (Christine)
- Scully, J. Eileen (Jennifer Eileen), 1964-
- George, Sarah
- Anthony, Rejoice
- Herold, Carolyn
Anglican Church of Canada : Year in Review 2019 : Because of you : Health care chaplains unite
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article42946
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2020 September
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 7
- Page
- insert p. [2]
- Notes
- Four page insert (1-4) included with September 2020 issue of Anglican Journal. Colour insert with seven (7) individual articles indexed separately.
- "The intense, one-on-one spiritual care provided by Anglican health-care chaplains 'can be personally fulfilling and challenging, but is also very difficult and stressful', says the Rev. Dr. Eileen Scully, director of Faith, Worship and Ministry for the Anglican Church of Canada". "The church has taken great strides in building a network with these chaplains, who often feel isolated, Dr. Scully notes. A poll last year [2019] found the group's top priorities were in strengthening their relationship with the church, sharing experiences around medically assisted dying, and self-care. The poll findings led to a four-day national consultation attracting 36 participants, who 'hailed the gathering' for providing a way for them to meet, and to 'share their stories, tears and joys with others in the same ministries,' Dr. Scully says. Integral to the consultation were worship and prayers for healing and celebration through music ... With 60 members now regularly in touch via email, resources and plans are in place for a second gathering in 2021".
- Subjects
- Scully, J. Eileen (Jennifer Eileen), 1964-
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Healing - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
Anglican Health Care Chaplains - Conference Book and Worship Resources. - 2022
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/archivaldescriptions43478
- Fonds Number
- 026
- Record Group
- Faith, Worship and Ministry
- Material Type
- Textual record
- Description Level
- File
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a booklet for Anglican Health Care Chaplains Conference. Includes a section on "Who we are".
- Restrictions
- Open
- Accession Number
- GS2022-06
- Box Number
- 1
- File No
- 2
Chaplain showed love
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article24652
- Author
- Bansgrove, Susan
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 1998 March
- Author
- Bansgrove, Susan
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 1998 March
- Volume
- 124
- Issue
- 3
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- Letter to the editor expressing appreciation for the article by Canon Colin Proudman on his time working as a chaplain in an HIV clinic.
- Subjects
- Proudman, Colin (Colin Leslie John), 1934-2021
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
Chaplains take pragmatic approach to Supreme Court ruling
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article39525
- Author
- Forget, André
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 April
- Author
- Forget, André
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 April
- Volume
- 141
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 8
- Notes
- The Journal spoke with three chaplains and ministers who work closely with the dying and their families about the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the ban on physician-assisted suicide. The Very Rev. Iain Luke, in the diocese of Athabasca, "expressed a theological concern that the statement suggests that 'dying and suffering around death, have no value', [but] he was also cautiously optimistic that the court's decision might actually provide a boost to palliative care". "For Luke, the church's most important role in response to assisted dying is to continue showing care and support for the dying and their families". The Rev. Keirstan Wells, co-ordinating diocesan health care chaplain for the diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, "said she thinks the court ruling is a 'positive development' because if will give people that autonomy, should they desire it. But she also believes that the church must provide guidance for those who are thinking through such end-of-life decisions". The Rev. Joanne Davies, a chaplain with the diocese of Toronto, "does think that the ruling has a positive side, in addition to the challenges. 'It means that we're actually going to talk about death and dying and actually name it', she said. 'As I begin to look at, that's the best part .. that people will actually start to think about it, and that passage to death is one form of care'".
- Subjects
- Canada. Supreme Court
- Euthanasia - Law and legislation - Canada
- Assisted suicide - Canada
- Assisted suicide - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Palliative treatment - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Terminal care - Canada
- Terminal care - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with the terminally ill - Anglican Church of Canada
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Luke, Iain
- Wells, Keirstan
- Davies, Joanne
Compassionate care
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article33705
- Author
- Shields, Donald
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2006 May
- Author
- Shields, Donald
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2006 May
- Volume
- 132
- Issue
- 5
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- Letter to the editor about shortcomings of statement "God helps those who help themselves".
"Concerning Chaplains"
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/official3843
- Date
- 1955 August/September
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Record Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Rev. L.F. Hatfield
- Seconder
- Rev. S.H. Prince
- Text
- Having in mind the progress made, though slowly, during recent years in Governmental policy regarding the appointment of Chaplains to Penal Institutions and Mental Hospitals, and the Council's interest therein, General Synod requests the Council for Social Service to set up a Committee from members of this Synod and the Council, with power to co-opt specially interested persons to study the whole matter of chaplaincy services in such institutions and to impress governments with the necessity for such a programme. CARRIED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Chaplains, Prison - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with prisoners - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with the mentally ill - Anglican Church of Canada
The Dixie Cup font : A memoir of grace in waxed paper
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article43733
- Author
- Ashton, Jenn, 1963-
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2022 April
- Author
- Ashton, Jenn, 1963-
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2022 April
- Volume
- 148
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 4, 7
- Notes
- The author describes the first baptism she was called to perform as a multifaith chaplain in the local city hospital when she was called out in the middle of a winter night to the bedside of an elderly man named Jason. She had been called by the man's son and told that the patient was his father "and that he had always wanted to be baptized. Was it too late ?" Ashton could find no special vessels and ended up bringing water in a dixie cup. "That little paper cup humbled me, and the reminder of the everlasting light that is always there for us washed over me when I looked down at those joyful flowers frozen there in cardboard time" (p. 7). Ashton baptized Jason in the presence of his family. Jason died the next day. "He never woke up or even knew that he'd been baptized, and yet when I look back, I still remember the grace that accompanied his baptism. I know that it wasn't the container that held the water or even the words I said that made it meaningful. The baptism of Jason on that wintry night had been more about all of us being there together in that room, praying selflessly, each in our own voice. for a common cause. Knowing that was key to every hour of work I did in that position from that point. I worried less about the 'right' way of doing things and focused on getting to that place of peace -- which, I recalled, is why I had taken the position in the first place" (p. 7).
- Author is "an award-winning Coast Salish author and visual artist. Her book of short stories, 'People Like Frank and Other Stories from the Edge of Normal', was shortlisted for the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award. She worships at St. Clement's Anglican Church in North Vancouver".
- Subjects
- Ashton, Jenn, 1963-
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Baptism
- Grace (Theology) - Anglican Church of Canada
Group opposes special care
http://archives.anglican.ca/en/permalink/article15279
- Record Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 1994 February
- Volume
- 120
- Issue
- 2
- Page
- 3
- Notes
- A task force in the diocese of New Westminster has recommended against a special chaplaincy for people with AIDS. Singling out diseases for special chaplaincies could create a ghetto for people who are afflicted. The report recommends special training for clergy and lay visitors to AIDS patients.
- Subjects
- AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with AIDS patients - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of New Westminster