A year ago, after analyzing carefully the chaotic vote on the Trisk amendment in Jamaica, we expressed the \u201chope that this will further demonstrate to the Communion the corrosive effect the current conflict and the efforts of those who seek to defeat or disable the Covenant are having in the Communion.\u201d\u009d We have to conclude, however, that in the past year this hope has not been realized and the corrosion has only spread. Many of the primary players at Jamaica are now on the Standing Committee itself and they freely denounce and try to subvert the very Covenant they are to administer. TEC\u2019s Presiding Bishop, like Dr. Fitchett calls the Covenant \u201cun-Anglican,\u201d\u009d challenges the Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s understanding of Pentecost and dismisses canonical requirements of the Church of England as \u201cnonsense.\u201d\u009d In reply, a Lambeth Palace official noted pointedly that one of the statements made by the Presiding Bishop was not true. The Secretary General notes that TEC does not \u201cshare the faith and order of the vast majority of the Anglican Communion\u201d\u009d and that some Communion discussions are \u201cat the point of collapse.\u201d\u009d The Secretary General interrupted his vacation to meet with TEC\u2019s Executive Council at its request only to be treated rudely while he was there and ridiculed after he left. Five resignations have been reported by the ACC Standing Committee in the last six months, and the Secretary General described its last meeting as the \u201cworst meeting\u201d\u009d of his life.<\/p>\n
The Communion can hardly tolerate another year like the last one. It is essential that the Communion have structures that work in the midst of ongoing crises in several churches of the Communion. The corrosive effect we spoke of a year ago must now be addressed as a matter of urgency. Five things are needed….<\/p>\n