The rift in the Anglican Communion over same-sex marriage blessings and gay clergy is being sent to mediation.
“It’s out of a commitment to reconciliation that this whole process is emerging,” Anglican Church of Canada Primate Fred Hiltz told the Star in a phone interview from Cairo.
Hiltz was among Anglican leaders from around the world meeting in Egypt this week, where a proposal by conservative Anglicans in Canada and the U.S. to set up an orthodox church operating parallel to the more liberal churches of the two countries was discussed.
“There was really no consensus among the primates over that matter,” said Hiltz, who opposes establishing a parallel church.
The Anglican communion is a joke that never ends. Only when everyone gets the joke will it cease to amuse.
Maybe a better idea would be to adopt an idea from Microsoft. In its Windows XP and Vista operating systems is a neat System Restore option: you can set the system back in time to a date before serious problems arose and restart fresh from that point — and avoid repeating the foolish mistakes that messed up things in the first place.
How about a reset and return to conditions, rules, and practices as they were in, say, 01/01/2001….and proceed from there, knowing what the future holds if bishops make or permit the same missteps again.
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w.w. – great idea, but we’d need to go back many more years than that. Others can weigh in on how many years would be necessary….
Too bad they haven’t called on the One True Mediator between God and Man.