Bishop Duncan is about to become archbishop of these groups who believe that the Episcopal Church and its Canadian counterpart have failed to uphold biblical authority and traditional doctrine on matters from the divinity of Christ to sexual ethics. Many of those present at the gathering are at risk of losing their church buildings, or have already lost them, in property disputes with their former denominations.
“I think there is no one who would go back,” Bishop Duncan said, to cries of “No! No!” from the congregation in St. Vincent Cathedral, the seat of the Diocese of Fort Worth, which, like the Diocese of Pittsburgh, voted to break with the Episcopal Church.
“I hear this everywhere I go. There is no one who would go back. There has been suffering and loss. Some of it was very wounding. But we are so much better off than we were before.”
Another great (even sympathetic) write up by Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh daily newspaper. You’d think she was related to +John Rodgers.
David Handy+
This new province in North America has a Scriptural and traditional legitimacy that is like a finger pointing at the increasing lack of legitimacy within ECUSA. This new province’s legitimacy is derived from the increasingly obvious departure of ECUSA from “…the Faith once given….”
It will be interesting to observe what will occur during the 2009 General Convention.
Will ECUSA’s revisionist leadership, national and diocesan, ‘load’ the convention with ‘screened’ and ‘hand picked’ diocesan delegates who will continue to advance the revisonist campaign within ECUSA?
Will the convention take actions to ‘invent’ canons for ECUSA that will de-legitmize orthodox Anglicans within ECUSA?
Will ECUSA’s process of ‘de-legitmization take the form of attacking bishops like +Bill Love and dioceses like the Diocese of Albany? Would they be that brazen?