The Archbishop of Canterbury has been slower to respond to the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool as a bishop suffragan than he was after her Dec. 5, 2009, election.
When the Diocese of Los Angeles elected Glasspool the Archbishop of Canterbury responded the next day.
“The election of Mary Glasspool by the Diocese of Los Angeles as suffragan bishop elect raises very serious questions not just for the Episcopal Church and its place in the Anglican Communion, but for the Communion as a whole,” Archbishop Rowan Williams said then.
Why would anyone be expecting the ABC to say anything?
If he was ever going to show leadership, it would have been years ago.
Apparently the ABC is waiting for someone else to answer the “serious questions” raised.
ABC … D. Demonstrably Dithering Doyen of Distinctions without Difference.
Sadly, the ABC has too much invested in unity at any expense, including the Christian Faith. Plus, the EC still is wealthy and has too much money for its own good. The AC, the ACC, and the ABC needs the EC….
Of course, the war of spin continues with Haller trying to argue that those who recognize the innovations of the EC as a departure from the catholic faith as the ones who are schismatic. The EC never takes responsibility for its actions nor the consequences of its actions. Yet, all choices and actions have consequences…and we are seeing them played out in the EC and the AC.
The EC is fracturing and dwindling. A faithful remnant remains…but it will be only a remnant. If the path continues, the EC will become more and more irrelevant in the Christian Faith and the AC whether they remain in Communion with the See of Canterbury or not.
As we all know, saying something does not make it so even if you believe it.
Unless ++Rowan Williams acts soon to reaffirm “…the Faith once given…,”
he will have,
through his passivity,
acknowledged and accepted the ‘innovations’ of ECUSA and the Canadian revisionists.
Thus, he will have passively placed his ‘seal of approval’ on the actions of ECUSA and the Canadian revisionists in their ‘revisionist eyes’ and in the eyes of the rest of the Anglican Communioin and will have emboldened the revisionists to become even more radically revisionist.
I have to admit that he converts oxygen into carbon dioxide really well.
Unfortunately, HRH Elizabeth II Regina, [i]fide defendorum[/i] … will do nothing of the sort to “defend the faith” by sacking this pitiful husk of an archbishop. We, tragically, should be unsurprised, as well evinced in her unwillingness to skip her pifflesome son and move ahead to an heir who might actually reign with grace.
The ArchDitherer of Canterbury is aiming for appointment to the See of Sloth, a sinecure for securing the changes he idealized in The Body’s Grace by doing nothing. The oft-cited Episcopal Communion and their ilk should reward him highly for his accedia. It is by which they are intending to conquer the Anglican Communion for gay-agenda politics just like EcUSA/TEc. Site the ADC against a fence post. No movement in 3 days. Dead. Or just a punctilious sloth.
If Rowan falls down in a forest, does it make a sound?