Diocese of Peru Bishop Bill Godfrey, representing the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, unsuccessfully called for a “listening process for those involved in litigation,” so that they “feel that justice is being done” and that “the ACC hears them.”
Episcopal Church episcopal representative Diocese of New York Bishop Catherine Roskam suggested that, a listening process should include the voice of “joyful Episcopalians — both liberal and conservative — in the re-constituted dioceses of the Episcopal Church.”
“There’s much good there,” she continued. “They’re faithful Episcopalians and their voices need to be heard as well.”
Earlier in the debate, Episcopal Church lay representative Josephine Hicks spoke against having the resolution’s second resolve to “affirm” the continuation group’s recommendations. She argued that while the Episcopal Church had “complied with all the moratoria — at a significant cost,” others have not honored the ban on cross-boundary interventions. These interventions occur when bishops and priests from other communion provinces enter the territory of the Episcopal Church to minister to disaffected members of the church, without the traditionally required permission of the local bishop.
Funny how ENS doesn’t mention KJS’s bald-faced lie about people taking property from TEC “without dialog”. Funny thing about that, yeah….
She creates her own reality, Gillian C.
“They’re faithful Episcopalians…” said the hireling bishop of the Diocese of New York.
Problem is that such statements equate faithfulness with unquestioning obedience and capitulation. What about the THOUSANDS and TENS OF THOUSANDS who were VERY faithful in their TEC parishes until…
…repeated follies like Pike and Thew Forrester,
…Gene Robinson,
…the loud and subsequently endorsed Susan Russells,
…the Executive Board forcibly joining us to become abortion advocates…
…renting out your own cathedral’s nave to entertainment narcissists
…etc, etc, etc, etc….ad nauseum.
The faithful WERE the backbone until they couldn’t stomach more duplicity and the vacillating syncretism done by the pathetic examples of leaders who couldn’t get a serious job in the secular world.
So, Bishop Roskam, why don’t you mingle more and you might just find that your so-called BIG TENT fell in a long time ago. The rump dioceses don’t even make up a few good-sized parishes. Keep lying to yourself so you can sleep at night. You’re still one to blame when you wake up.
With respect to Ms Hicks I don’t think the Episcopal Church has complied with the moratoria.
The ECUSA/TEC/GCC/EO-PAc complied with the moratoria like Canada – zero, nada, nilch. But, hey, let’s not let any facts get in the way of those in cloud cuckoo land.