Toronto, Canada, Jul 29, 2010 / 01:27 am
An Anglican female priest in Canada has apologized for offering communion to a dog after the incident added to further tensions within the Anglican churches.
Last month Donald Keith, 56, took his dog Trapper, a German Shepherd-Rhodesian Ridgeback crossbreed, into St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Toronto where Rev. Marguerite Rea was officiating. The man and his dog frequented the park outside the church.
An interim priest, Rea welcomed the two inside and offered communion to both Keith and Trapper.
One parishioner filed a formal complaint about the action with Anglican Bishop Patrick Yu. He has since left the congregation.