One of the highest ranking officials in the Vatican has warned that problems plaguing the Anglican Communion pose a ‘further and grave challenge for full and visible’ unity with Rome.
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of state and second in command at the Holy See, made the comments in a previously unpublished letter that was issued yesterday to delegates attending the Lambeth conference, a once-a-decade summit of the world’s Anglican bishops.
In the letter, which was largely supportive of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bertone said: ‘New issues that have arisen in our relationship pose a further and grave challenge for full and visible unity.’
Machiavelli, himself, said that “it is not enough to do the right thing, one must be seen doing the right thing.” I think this has a lot more to do with attempting to stabilize a potentially volatile ecclesiastical situation because it is too close to home. It is not in the geopolitical best interest of the Vatican to have the Church of England come apart, at this time.
[blockquote]Wright, who supports Williams despite holding divergent views on some matters, said: ‘You can’t have your cake and eat it. If you want to be part of this conversation you have to be here.'[/blockquote]
The [i]conversation[/i] is only intended to release the orthodox from their ignorance and homophobic bigotry. Then they will repent of their evil, and be freed from their neurotically fixated superego influences in order to become practitioners of one or more of the newer expressions of sexual liberation. (Is everyone [i]latent[/i]?)