Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told the annual meeting of the Compass Rose Society (CRS) in November that the tensions within the Anglican Communion are not going to be resolved any time soon. “Deep wounds heal slowly,” Williams told members of the CRS, which supports the ministries of the Archbishop of Canterbury by providing annual financial support and enhancing communication within the communion.
The Archbishop spoke at length about last summer’s Lambeth Conference of bishops and viewed a “photo cinema” presentation of Lambeth images from the Anglican Communion Office’s communications department. The Most Rev. Clive Handford, former primate of Jerusalem and the Middle East, and Bishop Victoria Matthews of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, offered an update of the work of the Windsor Continuation Group and matters relating to the Anglican covenant.
Perhaps the ABC has heard of the healing balm of SSB in the NE Episcopal church Province I and the binding of that with the Diocese of Missouri’s rejection of BO## and approval of SSBs and same-sex partnered deacons, priests, and bishops? The wound healing he’s looking for does not exist, does it?