Deborah Gyapong
Deborah Gyapong covers religion and politics primarily for Catholic and Evangelical newspapers in Canada. American by birth, she came to Canada as part of the back-to-the-land movement in the 1970s and homesteaded in Bear River, Nova Scotia until the romance of voluntary poverty wore off. After a year of selling real estate, in 1981, Divine Providence intervened and she landed her first job as a reporter/editor/photographer for a weekly newspaper in Digby, Nova Scotia for the princely sum of $125 a week. Still poor, but having discovered her calling, she pursued a journalism career that led her to 17 years in news and current affairs in radio and television at the CBC, 12 of those years as a television producer. She worked briefly from 2000-2002 as a communications officer for the Canadian Alliance Caucus when Stockwell Day was Leader of the Official Opposition.
Bio last updated June 18th, 2021.
Articles by Deborah Gyapong
Healing Wounds, Sharing Treasures
By Deborah Gyapong
September 1, 2012
Deborah Gyapong's journey brings her home to Rome while remaining an Anglican.
Informal talks with Rome began in the '90s, and in 2007, the TAC made a formal petition to the Holy See "to seek as a body full and visible communion, particularly Eucharistic communion in Christ, with the Roman Catholic Church" and "to achieve such communion while maintaining those revered traditions of spirituality, liturgy, discipline and theology that constitute the cherished and centuries-old heritage of Anglican communities throughout the world When then TAC primate Archbishop John Hepworth, former Canadian Bishop Robert Mercer, and his successor, ACCC Bishop Peter Wilkinson, brought the TAC's petition to Rome in October 2007, they also brought copies of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its Compendium, which TAC bishops had signed on the altar of St They knew women's ordination made unity with Catholic and Orthodox churches impossible, not because they were anti-women but because women's ordination played havoc with the theological understanding of Christ as bridegroom and the Church as bride, the nuptial mystery of the Mass In order to be truly Catholic, and to put to rest any doubt about the sacraments, we needed full, visible communion with the Bishop of Rome, the successor of Peter, the Pope, who is a sign of unity for the whole Church Poor and scorned as schismatic by the wider Anglican Communion, the Annunciation was part of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada (ACCC), a church that was formed in the late 1970s in response to decisions by some Anglican provinces to ordain women continuing in the faith once delivered) had formed the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), a worldwide body with the express purpose of seeking Christian unity