Two of the Anglican Communion’s pivotal leaders have expressed their outrage and concern following reports that church services in Harare, Zimbabwe have been disrupted by state officials.
A January 14 statement from Lambeth Palace said that Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams “condemns unequivocally the use of state machinery to intimidate opponents of the deposed bishop of Harare, Nolbert Kunonga.”
Williams is appalled by the recent reports of Zimbabwean police “forcibly stopping Sunday services in several churches in Harare where clergy have publicly and bravely refused to acknowledge Kunonga’s Episcopal authority.”
Has either commented on the abuse of alleged episcopal authority in the ECUSA/TEC? cf. against a bishop of the Southern Cone and the bishop of Pittsburgh?
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I thought not.
Re #1: I usually keep up with church news, so I’m surprised I missed this one. When did anyone from TEC call in a gang of armed thugs to beat either a bishop of the Southern Cone or the bishop of Pittsburgh and physically throw them onto the street during a church service? My guess is that, if that actually happened, I would have heard about it by now and both the Archbishop and the Anglican Communion Office would have condemned it.
Sounds like Nazi Germany all over again.