In effect the Pope, far from holding open his door to welcome the malcontents, has told them to sort themselves out and make peace with their fellows, male and female. To show he means business, he has dispatched no fewer than three cardinals to convey his message to this week’s Lambeth Conference of 600 Anglican bishops at the University of Kent.
Pope Benedict and Archbishop Williams of Canterbury get on well. Both are theologians. This is a big plus. But the odds remain against Anglican peace; for the question is not whether the loose worldwide federation of 38 provinces will split: the core issue is how it is to handle the split which has already occurred.
As long ago as 2005, when the Primates worldwide met near Newry, Co Down, 19 ”” more than half of those present ”” refused to attend the Communion service because North American Episcopalian liberal clergy were present. It may be brutal to say it, but the current decennial gathering in Kent is a bit of a sham; for it no longer can be said fully to represent the Anglican Communion.
More than 200 of its bishops are not there ”” because they insist upon staying away. The largest body of absentees are those of the conservative Afro-Asian grouping who call themselves the Global South. Its main component is the powerful Anglican Church of Nigeria, led by Archbishop Peter Akinola.
Wow. Starts with Pope as mob boss brokering peace and ends with 12th century Irish SSM’s and a poison apple.
Here we have the classic example of a zombie error. No matter how many times you show the error, the lie keeps rising up and staggering on.
Wake me when Pope Benedict (may God Keep him) sends Card Arinze (MGKH)
[blockquote]In our own time are numerous tragedies. Alan Turing was the ultimate computing genius of Bletchley Park, solving the puzzles that laid bare the secrets of the Germans’ Enigma codes and probably contributing more than any other boffin to winning the Second World War. But Turing faced a court appearance on a homosexual charge in 1954 and chose, at the early age of 42, to eat an apple he had injected with cyanide. Apple Macintosh’s logo survives as the modern industry’s tribute. [/blockquote]
Who knew that the Apple logo is a tribute to a poisoned apple? I always thought that it was a tribute to that genius, Isaac Newton, or even that other famous apple-biter, Eve. This website also offers two other explanations—that Steve Jobs was working on a hippie commune’s apple farm or that it was a tribute to Apple Records. (Apple Records promptly sued for copyright infringement.)
http://kouloumbris.com/weblog/archives/2005/01/18/history-behind-a-logo/
After the original Newton-under-the-apple-tree logo was dumped because it was too complex, the next one was the rainbow-in-the-wrong-order logo. That one was dumped in 1997. Why would they do that–if Apple is truly paying tribute to a persecuted gay genius? Could it possibly be that the rainbow had become the logo of another well-known organization that they didn’t want to be associated with?