Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has expressed “frustration” that the Canadian church has not been given an opportunity to present its situation with regards to the blessing of same-sex unions during hearings conducted by a body formed to determine the next course of action for the Anglican Communion to salvage its fractured unity.
Archbishop Hiltz, who attended the once-a-decade conference of the world’s Anglican bishops here, said that it would be “a huge challenge” to merge what has been happening in bishops’ discussion groups, called indaba, with what the Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) has been recommending as the way forward for the Communion.
“I think what we’re running into is a kind of difficult rubbing between the indaba process which has been in large measure very conversational, very relational” and the work of the WCG, which is “seeking to find structures and procedures whereby we can remain in communion with one another,” said Archbishop Hiltz.
LOL you ain’t TEC, Most Reverend Sir. Cough up them big bucks to the AC bureaucracy and you will get all the hearing you want!
It’s not that the case for SSB hasn’t been made and heard, rather having been heard, the case has been found deficient.
ACC could always try for the contrary hypothesis approach: if you cannot prove that SSB is within the ambit of scripture, reason, and Tradition, then try to prove that scripture, reason, and Tradition aren’t Christian. That will wake ’em up.
He should get used to it. In the ECUSA/TEC/GCC/EO-PAC Communion Canada is going to be small potatoes, too. Fred’s just getting a taste of the listening process heretofore allowed in Canada to those who disagree. Why should the inadequately financialed get any time? That’s the consistent complaint of the Global South, too. Give ’em a call, Fred. Maybe they’ll sympathise. Like you have.
i have just sent this to our national church rag:–
I read that Canadian churches have proceeded with actions around same-sex blessings “only after a long, considered period of discussion from a whole pile of points of view – theological, liturgical, canonical and pastoral,†Archbishop Hiltz said. Yes, and the Moon is made from green cheese. There is no hope for our church when leaders believe and spread falsehoods such as this. The case for the goodness and beauty of same-sex physical relations has never been made, in Canada or elsewhere. For the very sound reason that it CANNOT be made.
Let’s see whether it gets published. I intend to go down fighting.