Leaders of the Third Province movement sidestepped the contentious issue of women clergy last night, and have endorsed a provisional constitution and canons governing the emerging Third Province in the Americas.
“God did a great work today,” Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan told supporters at a church service in Wheaton, Illinois at the end of the Dec 1-3 gathering, as the disparate members of the Common Cause Partnership (CCP) of Anglican traditionalists in the US and Canada “came together with the proposed draft of the constitution and canons” and after discussing each proviso, “adopted unanimously” each article of the code.
This was “staggering considering who was around the table” said Bishop Duncan ”” the moderator of CCP and now the interim primate and archbishop of the provisional province.
I find Bishop Duncan’s constant assertion that God approves everything that Bishop Duncan approves to be very presumptuous. Even the Pope only claims to speak for God a handful of times in a century, and even that is too much for most Anglicans. Article 21 of the 39 Articles is relevant here.
Isn’t this what the other side has been doing for years…..pot calling the kettle black….