More grace needed

In Grace's paper chase: 'Donation' document from 1929 pledges Grace Church to Denver diocese from the Colorado Springs Independent Newsweekly, reporter Michael de Yoanna names the two sides in the Colorado Springs debacle "secessionists" (those who left ECUSA and are now affiliated with CANA) and "loyalists" (those still members of the Diocese of Colorado) - and yes, it does make it sound like civil war (only sometimes not so civil).

The one-page form could be a Holy Grail for a diocese eager to return to the building now being used by hundreds of entrenched Episcopal secessionists and their embattled patriarch, the Rev. Don Armstrong.

Martin Nussbaum, an attorney for the diocese, says the form, which surfaced as part of the legal battle for the building, bodes well for hundreds of exiled Episcopal loyalists hoping to return to the gray building described when it opened in 1926 as perhaps the most beautiful church west of the Mississippi River. . .

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