In her letter to the Primates, the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church (TEC) Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, confirmed that the consecration of the openly gay Mary Glasspool is not a random event but comes from the settled mind of her church. Sadly, this shows that TEC has now explicitly decided to walk apart from most of the rest of the Communion.
Since that decision by TEC has to be respected, it should result in three consequences. First, TEC withdrawing, or being excluded from the Anglican Communion’s representative bodies. Second, a way must be found to enable those orthodox Anglicans who remain within TEC to continue in fellowship with the Churches of the worldwide Communion. Third, the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) should now be recognized an authentic Anglican Church within the Communion.
Dr Philip Giddings, Convenor,
Canon Dr Chris Sugden Executive Secretary, Anglican Mainstream
Three consequences? Fat chance. The official offices of the AC will continue to do nothing. The ABC will continue to do nothing. The Global South will continue to go its own way and maybe create the way out, but the AC will never call TEC to account or offer succor to the faithful Anglicans in the US and Canada.
Respect it??? Respect willful sin and damnation??? You are nuts!
Intercessor
“TEC has now explicitly decided to walk apart from most of the rest of the Communion. Since that decision by TEC has to be respected,” consequences should follow. But we are talking Rowan Williams here, so don’t look to Canterbury for any. And the prior ABC, Carey, is seeing here the results of his capitulation to Grizwoldian machinations!
How’s that working out for ya, Lord Carey? Turns out you let the blight in. My, my, my, how the famine has got along.
I think it is safe to say that more and more Anglican/episcopal parishes will start to look at Benedict XVI’s offer of an Anglican Ordinariate as a truly viable offer.
A few may, but I doubt very much that mine will. Rome’s got problems of their own, and we don’t want to have any part of those problems or even be remotely associated with them. I can’t speak for other parishes in our diocese, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most feel the same way.
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I might agree with all those suggestions, yet have absolutely complete confidence that not a single one will be implemented.
In an entirely secular setting in the 1980’s, President Reagan
decertified PATCO, the organization representing air-traffic
controllers. Can’t the ABC decertify TEC ? If TEC elites are so
hell-bent on following secular trends such as gay marriage and
non-celibate gay clergy, why should they howl if the secular
notion of “decertification” is applied by the AC to TEC ?
Ichabod, because it erodes their alleged legitimacy.
another response: Anglicans and Unity –
We are no longer a body that needs worry about schism; we ourselves have become a schism within the Church Catholic.
Today from the UK there has been a further comment from Fulcrum – Bishop Graham Kings writes:
The latter article concludes as follows::
I really think it would be self-delusional of us to expect Rowan Cantuar to make any statement actually condemning TEC for their actions, given his track record thus far. He is a man of many words but no action, and thus far, his actions have been glaringly evident by their absence. He may issue a mild rebuke or two, but don’t expect him to do more than that.
I would dearly LOVE to have him prove me wrong, though. I won’t hold my breath.
Whoopee!
1. The barn door should be closed.
2. Only one person may close the barn door.
3. Animals left in the barn should declare their intentions to stay in the barn.
4. If the barn door is not closed, we are united in our belief that the barn door should be closed.
5. Before the barn door is closed, there must be two committees, one to determine if in fact horses have been stolen or are missing from some other cause, if they are missing; and second, to determine who owns the barn and if that owner will be willing to have the barn door closed at some time in the future after the committees have reported to their bishops and the bishops have met in private session to examine whether the committees are to be recognized and by whom precisely. Recommendations must await the result of this deliberations. In the meantime, a moratorium is proposed on all horse stealing,. the rules for which will be established by a committee
staffed by the owners of the barn. Larry