From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette-
The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh has sent Anglican parishes that left the Episcopal Church an eight-point proposal for negotiations over parish property, and the Anglican diocese has welcomed the invitation to talk.
The letter was sent Thursday to 41 congregations that were part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh before the diocesan convention voted in October 2008 to leave the denomination. The two dioceses have been in litigation over property issues since before the split occurred. Two Anglican parishes made property settlements with the Episcopal diocese this month.
"We have said all along that we want, as Scripture teaches, to seek to reconcile our differences directly with each other," said the letter from Episcopal Bishop Kenneth Price, Jr., to the rector and lay leaders of the Anglican parishes.
The negotiation proposal states that those parishes that have not paid assessment to the Episcopal diocese for two years could be declared "transitional parishes" as of March 13. Transitional parishes have their assets vested with the trustees of the diocese
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