St. Francis on Hill ready for changes after breaking from diocese

A new direction
By María Cortés González
El Paso Times
Article Launched: 11/07/2008

EL PASO -- Members of St. Francis on the Hill church probably won't notice any differences in their worship Sunday.

But there is a big difference in the name of the church and the future of this expansive church on a West Side hill.

Following a growing trend in El Paso -- and across the country -- St. Francis on the Hill announced last week it was separating from the Episcopal Church in an effort to be more biblically orthodox in the Anglican Church.

The church's decision comes a year after the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Clement became the first church in El Paso to depart from the diocese and the Episcopal Church USA in September 2007. At the time, more than 200 congregations had left the church nationally since 2003, clergy said. the rest