At its last meeting, the Standing Committee of the Church of Ireland General Synod approved the following response to ACC-14’s request for reconsideration of the text of Section 4: “Having considered Section 4 of the Draft Anglican Covenant very carefully, and bearing in mind a full range of points of view, we believe that the text of Section 4 as it stands commends itself in the current circumstances. The term ”˜Joint Standing Committee’ clearly needs to be updated following its restyling at ACC-14. We appreciate the work of the former Covenant Design Group, not least in taking into account the Church of Ireland’s views, and encourage the Archbishop of Canterbury and his new group under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Dublin as they seek to conclude the work on the text of the Covenant.”
This is excellent news. We need a bandwagon effect for the Ridley draft.
On another note, from their comments: [blockquote]The term ‘Joint Standing Committee’ clearly needs to be updated following its restyling at ACC-14. [/blockquote] Can someone update me on what this means? This one must have slipped past me. How did ACC-14 “restyle” the Joint Standing Committee?
This is significant.