This month the campaign to allow women bishops in the Church of England could clear another hurdle.
Supporters are surprised and encouraged by the backing it has been getting in the Church’s regional councils, or synods.
“We were expecting positive votes but the overwhelming majorities have been more encouraging than we expected,” says Helena Jenkins, a parishioner of St Luke’s church in Sevenoaks, Kent.
How liberating to view this from the truly Catholic place of the Ordinariate. How liberating because my focus for the next 12 months can be about making a difference to the Catholic mission in this land and not getting drawn into a debate which is in truth all ready over and to a future in which my beliefs will lead to marginalisation at best and death at worst. The C of E has already chosen – Anglicanism has chosen. And it desires to be a liberalised protestant and congregationalist organisation and manifestly not a part of the Catholic church universal. It is time people accepted that with grace and moved to the places where they can flourish. Otherwise so very much energy, time and resources will be wasted and people led down the garden path. Is it fair to present the church to people as one thing when the wider body now refuse it?