A key debate on women bishops has been delayed until the summer after the Church of England received an “avalanche” of submissions about the subject, it was announced today.
The Church said more than 100 submissions had been received by a legislative drafting group working on the issue of women bishops.
It had been hoped that the legislation could be debated by the General Synod, the church’s ruling body, meeting in London next month but this will not now take place until it meets at York in July.
Slow and pokey
Down the road they go.
A mere 100 submissions is an avalanche? Really! That’s an interesting perspective which denigrates the concept of avalanche. A chiliad might be called such, but a mere ONE hundred?
Of course they’re going to do it.
The Pope, Cardinal Kasper, Damian Thompson and I agree with Christina Rees: either do it or don’t; decide if you’re Catholic or Protestant. None of this half-hearted business with flying bishops and codes of practice; ecclesiologically they don’t make sense.
[blockquote]decide if you’re Catholic or Protestant. None of this half-hearted business with flying bishops and codes of practice; ecclesiologically they don’t make sense[/blockquote]
Not perhaps to a Roman Catholic, but it does to us, being both Catholic and Reformed, and proud to be so. If you want to understand what we are about at our best read this:
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/689?q=challenge+and+hope
No. 3 Certainly the RC Church is also “catholic and reformed” in the same sense. Trent and V2 are two good examples.
young fogey at #2, female bishops are no more “protestant” than they are “catholic”. They are however, definitely “liberal” as opposed to orthodox and scriptural!
So the Church of England doesn’t have to “decide if you’re catholic or protestant”. It just has to decide whether it is orthodox or liberal.