All the Primates have been sent copies of Dr [Rowan] Williams’s post-ConÂference reflections; but on WednesÂday the promised “bridge-building” letters had still not been sent out. “I know it is being worked on in the office, and it is in process. But the letters have not physically gone out to everyone absent yet,” a source in the Anglican Communion Office said.
The press officer, Canon Jim RosenÂthal, confirmed later in the day that they would be sent out at the end of the week.
Dr Williams and Canon Kearon have both been on leave.
The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, who is the newly appointed secretary of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), told The Guardian last week: “At Lambeth there was talk of building bridges, but as far as I know there has been no approach made.”
His remarks followed the publicaÂtion of a communiqué from the GAFCON Primates’ Council’s first meeting, held in London from 20 to 22 August. The five Primates ”” of Nigeria, the Southern Cone, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda ”” who formed the Council said that GAFCON “continues its advance”. They had found no reason “to make us hesitate from the course we are taking”.
They warned that a breach of the three Windsor Process moratoriums supported widely at the Lambeth Conference ”” no episcopal ordina-tions of partnered homosexual people, no blessing of same-sex unions, and no cross-border incur-sions by bishops ”” would lead to the Communion’s “fracture”.
We’ve been here before.
Ko Ko: Your Majesty, its like this. It is true that I stated that I had killed Nanki Poo…….
It’s like this: when your Majesty says, “Let a thing be done,” it’s as good as done – practically, it is done – because your Majesty’s will is law. Your Majesty says, “Kill a gentleman,” and a gentleman is told off to be killed. Consequently, that gentleman is as good as dead – practically he is dead – and if he is dead, why not say so?
Mikado: I see. Nothing could possibly be more satisfactory!