A £1.2m deficit in the recent Lambeth Conference’s budget will be discussed on Monday by the committee that manages the Church of England’s assets.
A boycott of the conference by more than a quarter of bishops over the issue of homosexuality is thought to be partly responsible.
The Church’s main executive body, the Archbishops’ Council, has already agreed to pay half the shortfall.
Now Church Commissioners will decide how to meet the rest of the costs.
Gosh. I wonder whose deep pockets they will try to tap? But enough of that distraction. Let’s get back to imagining how severely TEC will be punished when it violates the WCG moratoria.
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carl
If the America’s TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada are intent on thumbing their noses at consensus at Lambeth, and so many Southern Hemisphere Anglicans do not even see the point of continuing their association with the other Anglicans who do show up at Lambeth, then the premise that there remains any definable Anglican Communion has become absurd. How sad for the dear people of the Compass Rose Society, and for the lay and clerical mission workers in the field whose outreach will be hindered, or at least complicated, by this historic evaporation of good will, which is no one’s fault, yet everyone’s fault.
Dependency breeds subservience. – Thomas Jefferson
This is nothing new! The CofE was bought by TEC long ago. The ACC is proof of that pudding and just how deeply connected is Canon Kearnon to them. So this is no more news than +Rowans personal opinions about gay relationships.
I bet they’ll think twice about not inviting Gene Robinson next time. They could have been swamped with massive donations from the “Gifted” lobby.
[blockquote] A boycott of the conference by more than a quarter of bishops over the issue of homosexuality is thought to be partly responsible.[/blockquote]
Granted, it’s been over 25 years since I took accounting classes, but if you ran a deficit at 75% attendance, wouldn’t the deficit be higher if all the bishops had actually come? Please don’t tell me that they rented extra rooms and purchased extra food thinking that a quarter of the invited bishops who said they were not going to be attending might change their minds at the last minute. Was the big top they rented too big? I recall Ruth Gledhill reporting there was no air-conditioning, so there couldn’t have been extra demand for utilities.
The brief article in the BBC gives no reason for its scapegoating of the non-attending Bishops.
I would like to see a credible explanation for this outrageous allegation.
I’m with Sulik on this one. The guys who stayed away had the effect of reducing the financial load, not running the thing into deficit. I would also think that many of those Bishops would have requested or required “bursaries” to attend, and their absence reduced this line item of subsidy.
Do you think +++Williams will thank them for helping the cause?
The presiding bishop says no change from the TEc and TACoC has indicated the same. Though GAFCOM has not answered yet I have no doubt, based its final report, that it will never accept the apostates position. It is time accept the fact the old communion has ceased to exist and time for the AoC to resign for his failure to accept the advice of his senior bishops to recognise and act on that fact.
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I agree with William Sulik (#6).
A major cost had to be transportation since there were probably over 400 airline tickets from ‘far parts of the world’ where bishops and spouses might have needed a travel subsidy had they attended.
I also think that RMBruton (#5) may be correct since ‘the gifted ones’ and their avid supporters may have held back on their donations because their ‘man’ Robinson was not invited.
In any case, this shortfall gives those who used to give and haven’t given an opportunity to prove the old ‘twist’ to The Golden Rule.
“He who has the gold, makes the rules.”
#6. You have to give the BBC some grace, only in their rarefied air of their newsrooms does over 200 missing bishops account for increased debt for Lambeth. What’s even funnier is that someone is actually paid to be editor…
I’m sure Kate Schori will pony-up now that it is apparent that the ABC has been bought by hereTEC.