Toronto Star: Anglicans formalize split

After five years of battles over gay rights, the Anglican communion fractured yesterday with a new conservative denomination claiming to represent the historic tenets of the faith.

The self-titled Anglican Church in North America, claiming a membership of 100,000, unveiled a constitution and canons with a prayer service last night in the Chicago suburb of Wheaton. Founders said the new church hopes to be welcomed one day as the 39th province in the worldwide communion.

“It’s been a day that, in effect, reverses decades of Anglican history,” Bishop Robert Duncan, a leader in the breakaway movement, told a news conference.

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2 comments on “Toronto Star: Anglicans formalize split

  1. Mike Bertaut says:

    “Gay rights” AFter all this time, after everything done by the Right to explain their position, the TS still thinks this is about gay rights?

    They’re really not listening. No wonder the MSM is laying off employees by the tens of thousands today….

    KTF!…mrb

  2. chips says:

    I saw on Drudge today that over 30 newspapers are for sale with few buyers. The fewer graduates from journalism school the better off we will be. The internet and cable may bring about the end of the left’s near monopoly on information.