Mariann Edgar Budde

National Cathedral windows shift from themes of Confederacy to racial justice

By Adelle M. Banks — September 23, 2023
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'There is a lot of work yet to be done to confront systemic racism,' said cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith.

Nearly two years after election, Episcopal Diocese of Chicago’s first Black female bishop takes office

By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 18, 2022
LOMBARD, Illinois (RNS) — Just weeks before she was set to take office in April 2021, Bishop Paula Clark experienced a brain bleed while exercising and later underwent surgery.

Lessons of pandemic can endure, says editor of National Cathedral sermon compilation

By Adelle M. Banks — March 15, 2022
(RNS) — Editor of book of sermons preached during the pandemic at Washington National Cathedral: ‘People have been so isolated, alone, afraid. They just need to connect.’

Bishop Mariann Budde appeals to ‘better angels’ in Democratic convention prayer

By Jack Jenkins — August 18, 2020
(RNS) — The Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., said her appearance is not partisan, and said she declined a request to film her Democratic convention prayer in front of St. John’s, where President Donald Trump held up a Bible.

English priest shadows women bishops for a job she can’t have — yet

By Adelle M. Banks — March 27, 2014
(RNS) The Rev. Sue Pinnington chose to spend her sabbatical exploring the roles of women bishops in hopes that she can bring back what she learned about leadership to members of the Church of England.

Photo slideshow: Holy Week pilgrimage against gun violence

By Kevin Eckstrom — March 25, 2013
"We as Christians are not going to go away until we have a culture of peace and reconciliation," said Connecticut Bishop Ian Douglas, who presided at funerals for the victims of the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., last year.
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