Bishop Ackerman said he has heard from the Diocese of Bolivia regarding the Presiding Bishop’s actions. “Having heard from the Diocese of Bolivia, I understand that I’m a priest in good standing in that diocese,” he said.
Bishop Ackerman said he is troubled by the Episcopal Church’s apparent inability to transfer bishops peaceably to other provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
“It must see itself as highly independent,” he said. “If orders are not universal in the Anglican Communion, they cease to be catholic in the full sense of the word. ”¦ The Episcopal Church does not own the ministry of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.”
Neva Rae Fox, the Episcopal Church’s program officer for public affairs, said the Presiding Bishop was unlikely to respond to Bishop Ackerman’s remarks.
[blockquote]Bishop Ackerman had been invited to serve as a U.S.-based bishop for the Diocese of Bolivia, without a vote in its House of Bishops.[/blockquote]
Is Bolivia planting churches in the U.S.? I hadn’t heard of that country doing so. If it is, I can understand why the PB did what she did. She doesn’t need to countenance “interloping” bishops in this province. On the other hand, if Bolivia is not…then I just don’t get it.
Comment is unlikely to be forthcoming because her motives are indefensible.
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The orders of Episcopalians are just as real and valid now as they *ever* were.
Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury encouraged people everywhere to recycle and restated TEC’s commitment to the Anglican Communion.
Another example of why it makes no sense to depend on TEC ‘polity’ for anything good and useful.
“The Episcopal Church does not own the ministry of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church.â€
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Sums it up “in a nut shell.”
No need for further discussion of this matter among those who are truly, in their hearts and in their informed committments, members of The Church Catholic.
Asd for the leadership of ECUSA, their claim to membership in The Church Catholic becomes more and more and more tenuous.
Dressing up in fancy vestments and using the mere vestige of The Holy Sacrements as a pretense no longer supoprts their claim to membership.
Maybe the Clown Mass will become the norm in ECUSA.
In all the years that I have known him, I have never ceased to be amazed at the grace and humility of Bishop Ackerman. He sets us a wonderful example of what it is to turn the other cheek while in the midst of an impossible set of circumstances.
God bless you, Keith.
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Have all the elves left for Rome? Methinks there is a comment posted above that is ad-hominem, insults the author of the post and
and does not pass the smell test. Please, would the refs make a call on the play.
[Thanks Richard – Elf]