The Archbishop of Canterbury blamed liberal North American churches yesterday for causing turmoil in the Anglican communion by blessing same-sex unions and consecrating gay clergy as he attempted to chart a way out of the crisis that has been engulfing the church.
On the final day of the Lambeth conference, a 10-yearly gathering of the world’s Anglican bishops, Rowan Williams said practices in certain US and Canadian dioceses were threatening the unity of the Anglican communion.
“If North American churches do not accept the need for a moratoria [on same sex blessings and the consecration of gay clergy] we are no further forward. We continue to be in grave peril,” he said.
He was speaking as 670 bishops prepared to leave the University of Kent campus after 18 days of reflection, prayers, conversations and efforts to hold a divided communion together.
It seems that no matter what happens, Integrity has to try and have the last word. What is it they don’t get? The Bible clearly labels homosexual acts as abominations. How much clearer can you be?
So, nothing was changed by Lambeth. ++Rowan has stated that +Kat and her boys are the problem and he plans to have a meeting sometime next year to deal with it (shades of New Orleans).
+Jon. J. is still feeding out the same old “We don’t care what God of the ABC says, we’re doing our own thing” line, and Susan Russell is angry.
Did anyone need Lambeth to discover any of this?
RSB
Duh!!!! Just figuring this out now….
Amazing.
So Susan Russell regards this as a slap in the face for the GLBT lobby? Well, if the shoe fits, wear it! How will TEC react to RW’s pronouncement? They’ll ignore it…….just as they’ve ignored everything else, and they’ll go their way down the Yellow Brick Road to oblivion…..they’re aleady apostate, and they’ll end up in the “dustbin of history,” while all the time claiming that they’re right, and everyone else is wrong.
Or wwe will continue on grave peril. OK we are in grave peril, but not as bad as you think it is, Oh ABC, because you and TEc and the left wing have now gone too far. Am I right about this, tht there is now no going back? Larry
He has ben called Ruin, Hopeless, et cetera. He is a typical academic who knows he is right and everyone who doesn’t agree is wrong. I can see why the politicians who picked him did so, he has supported their causes including their views on women and homosexuals.
#2, Americans certainly didn’t need Lambeth to discover this, but to make much of the rest of the Anglican world aware of the realities Americans face, Lambeth was probably an indispensable opportunity. Although media headlines of course are not an even-handed appraisal of the results, it appears that by getting 600+ of the 880 bishops in one place, and even by employing the dubious ‘talk shop’ Indaba procedure that exposed to the light nearly every opinion, enough attention from the relevant media spotlighted Anglican troubles long enough that the word is finally getting out globally. This can have effects that were not in the mix before, and I hope it does – remains to be seen of course.
It’s interesting to see this headline in the Guardian, since just before Lambeth the reports from Synod on the CofE’s vote to, in effect, jettison its traditionalists by implementing WO got a different reaction. No liberals were blamed at that point but now they perceive the ABC is holding North American liberals responsible for Communion woes – interesting!
Here is what the self-same Guardian had to say after the CofE Synod vote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/07/anglicanism.religion2