Speaking to the 8th Philippine General Synod on 2 May, the Church\u2019s Prime Bishop, the Most Rev Edward Malecdan, argued the best way forward through the crisis of faith and order dividing Anglicans was to keep talking while taking no action that would cause irreparable harm to the fabric of the Communion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think most of us know that there are problems besetting the Communion,\u201d\u009d he observed, noting that \u201cone of this is the practice of The Episcopal Church USA, or TEC, in consecrating practicing homosexuals and lesbians to the episcopate. The other is the acceptance of same-sex marriages in both TEC and in the Anglican Church of Canada or ACoC.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
The responses to these breaches of Communion by the US and Canada had led some provinces to call for the isolation of \u201cthese two North American Churches. They express in no uncertain terms that the Church in Canada and TEC should be out of the Communion.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n