Episcopal bishop hopes for healing
By Carol Reeves
Gazette-Times reporter
Monday, August 13, 2007

A year after her controversial election as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, Katharine Jefferts Schori is still hopeful tensions within the denomination and the worldwide Anglican Communion can be resolved.“I think as a Christian you have to live in hope of reconciliation always,” Jefferts Schori said during a brief stop in Corvallis at the beginning of a weeklong vacation.

“If we can get people to get out of a face-saving mode and refocus on the mission of the church, I think we can learn to live together and stay one body.”Jefferts Schori, an Oregon State University graduate and former assistant rector at the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan in Corvallis, was elected in June of 2006 as the first woman to serve as the national leader, or primate, of one of the 38 provinces in the worldwide Anglican Communion. the rest

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