In an audio recording, the Archbishop of Canterbury gives his thoughts on Wednesday’s vote at the House of Bishops.
Follow the link and listen to it all.
In an audio recording, the Archbishop of Canterbury gives his thoughts on Wednesday’s vote at the House of Bishops.
Follow the link and listen to it all.
Is this correct: the right of women to be consecrated bishop is to be enshrined in law. The rights of those who disagree is to be summarized in a single sentence that requires their views to be “respected”?
#1- that does indeed just about sum it up. The previous several years have merely been the usual series of Rowan Williams inspired delaying tactics to keep the traditionalists from pulling up stakes. The CoE HoB just folded like a house of cards, which has been the anticipated outcome.
But after all, they will, of course, have a “code of practice”- the reality of which is that the women bishops will be asked to play along until the current generation of traditionalists dies out, or KJS becomes head of the (western) Anglican Communion, whichever comes first.
I imagine the last Anglo Catholic or traditional Evangelical bishop in the Church of England has already been consecrated. After all, the revised legislation makes it pretty clear that there will not be any tolerance of either in the New Thang Church of England.
I may be wrong……correct me if I am…..but I don’t know of anything anywhere in Anglicanism which says that anyone has the ‘right’ to be ordained. That so-called ‘right’ doesn’t exist in the ACNA, nor TEC as far as I know, and, I believe, in the Church of England. So where do the British bishops get off telling women that they will have this so-called ‘right?’