Report of Council for Social Service - Section VII - The Pastoral Ministry
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- Date
- 1949 September
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Canon Judd
- Seconder
- Rev. Dr. S.H. Prince
- Text of motion
- 2. Ministrations in Institutions
- That the General Synod, while recognizing that, among other reasons, many more secular institutions will probably arise in our Canadian social life, is of the opinion that greater attention should be given to the spiritual needs of inmates of all secular institutions than heretofore and expresses the hope that more of the clergy will find it possible to visit regularly such institutions and to seek opportunity to minister personally and corporately to all concerned;
- In particular, the Synod expresses the hope that the authorities in all Provinces will provide for, and sustain, fully employed chaplains in provincial jails and mental hospitals; and that they will interest themselves in the training now being devised or given by the Church to special students and younger clergy as chaplains for such institutions; that this information and hope be communicated to the Departments of Governments concerned. ADOPTED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Chaplains, Prison - Anglican Church of Canada
- Chaplains, Hospital - Anglican Church of Canada
- Prisons - Canada
- Psychiatric hospitals - Canada
- Church work with prisoners - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with the mentally ill - Anglican Church of Canada