A change in the announced dates for the upcoming primates’ meeting and a slight adjustment to the published calendar of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will make it possible for her to attend the final day of the gathering of Anglican leaders in Alexandria, Egypt.
Living Church: Change of Schedule for Primates’ Meeting
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Actually according to the notice the Presiding Bishop called the “special reorganising convention” in furtherance of her continued canon-abuse and without any authority. So the ABC and ACO have accommodated her continued illegal behaviour.
Shame on you.
I am fed up of hearing of Dr Williams’ continuing enabling of the persecution and illegality of the Presiding Bishop.
I wonder if the result will be Dr Williams losing the authority of his own office. What will it look like in a years time I wonder. I have watched over the last year as Primates, provinces and even Church of England bishops have stopped listening to him, notwithstanding all the propaganda telling us what a success Lambeth was for him, notwithstanding that it represented less than half the Communion.
But he is very stubborn, as some of the Welsh can be.
Pageantmaster – it’s the original “golden rule” [s]he who has the gold, rules.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew_6:24;&version=47;
#4 All the evidence is that the PB is not coughing up the cash at the moment – hence the ACO departures I suspect. Plus I suspect there is not much cash left evidenced by the cuts we have seen in TEC mission, the financial collapse and the huge sums she has been shovelling into her litigation.
by the final day of this meeting I would expect the Global South to have already walked out. Which would probably suit Mrs. Schori just fine, she has pretty much nothing in common with them.
…and the new center of Anglicanism will be elsewhere in a few years….Jerusalem? Canterbury will be the field trip destination for heritage pilgrimages to remember martyrs.
Yes, Pageantmaster, we Welshmen CAN be stubborn, but thank God, we’re not all like ++Rowan, who stubbornly refuses to stand up for what’s right. Here’s a message for you, Rowan: “Adwaenir dyn wrth ei gyfeillion.”
Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Originally, the Primates’ Meeting was scheduled for Jan. 31st through Feb. 6th, now it’s shortened by a day on both ends. Those are facts; but when it comes to understanding why this potentially crucial meeting was shortened, we appear to be left to speculate about the reason(s).
It seems to me that this could be due to a number of factors, and the decisive one may not be accommodating the PB’s schedule (just guessing). There are lots of potential reasons for thus cutting back on the time spent at this primatial meeting, including the increasing difficulty that the ACO has in managing and manipulating such meetings in order to prevent the repeat of something significant happening, such as the aborted plan that came out of the last Primates’ Meeting two years ago in Dar es Salaam.
I can sympathize with Pageantmaster’s frustration and anger at ++Rowan Williams, so evident above. The man is a brilliant scholar, but he’s also a poor leader. I think he’s the wrong guy to be in his crucial position during this dangerous crisis, and he has greatly aggravated and inadvertently hastened the probably inevitable breakup of the AC by his irresponsible and passive-aggressive behavior. Personally, I hope the other primates chastise him severely for sabotaging their carefully worked out plan they came up with in Tanzania. They need to hold him accountable for single-handedly taking it upon himself to declare that their deadline (Sept. 30, 2007) wasn’t really a dealine…
After all, the Primates can take matters into their own hands. Canterbury only has as much power as they CHOOSE to allow him to have. They could, for example, theoretically choose to meet on their own, by consensus (except, of course, if the leading Global South primates tried to call the rest of them together, many of the liberal Anglo-Saxon provinces might refuse to come). But my point is that the group is free to choose to meet whenever and however it wants. They don’t need an engraved invitation from Canterbury. However, some of the primates from the poorest provinces might need financial help to get there.
But if all they’re going to do is “Indaba” in Jamaica, why not cut short the waste of time and money and go back home and to work a day sooner? I sure hope that the Primates’ Meeting turns out differently than last summer’s Lambeth Conference in that regard, but time will tell. The presence of Nigeria’s brave ++Akinola, Uganda’s determined ++Orombi, and Kenya’s respected ++Nzimbi (all absent of course from Lambeth) could make a huge difference.
We won’t have to wait long to find out.
David Handy+
I agree with David Handy that “the group is free to choose to meet whenever and however it wants,” and I wish they would start to do so independent of Rowan Williams. Of course, I would want him to be invited, but it would be best if the initiative and timing were taken out of Williams’ hands so that something could actually be accomplished.
The Feb. 1 date has been clear for some time from published information I have seen in Egypt. I’m not sure whether the end date was Feb. 5 or 6. But seriously, if they are not in agreement by Feb. 5, the 6th probably won’t make any difference. Really, I would think the shape of things will be clear in two days, if not one.