The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are planning to force the General Synod to offer safeguards to traditionalists unhappy with women bishops. And I do mean force, since the Synod had already decided not to offer those safeguards.<\/p>\n
Whatever. Although it\u2019s none of my business, and if I was a supporter of women bishops I\u2019d be outraged, I sort of hope that Dr Williams and Dr Sentamu get their way. As Fr Ed Tomlinson SSC notes on his blog, the Primates\u2019 plan would separate worshippers who are serious about belonging to a Catholic Church as it was understood by the founders of Anglo-Catholicism \u201d\u201c none of whom would countenance any degree of communion, however remote, with women bishops \u201d\u201c from those prepared to turn a blind eye to the DIY ecclesiology of \u201calternative oversight\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n
Fr Tomlinson, a supporter of the Ordinariate, makes a neat (if mischievous) distinction between those who want to be part of the \u201cCatholic faith\u201d\u009d and those who want to be part of \u201cCatholic tradition\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n