The BBC’s Robert Pigott says this would be “some sort of statement of shared beliefs and a more-or-less binding agreement to stick to them”.<\/p>\n
Our correspondent said there were signs of support for a long-term strategy to prevent further disintegration, but that the issue had brought the Church to the “brink of a permanent split”.<\/p>\n
“It seems that a number of groups of clergy have voted for a ban on gay bishops and church blessings for homosexual couples, as part of a long-term plan to preserve at least the core of the Communion,” he said.<\/p>\n
One suggestion from the group working on a potential Covenant has been for churches departing from tradition to have “diminished status” within the Communion.<\/p>\n
Such an arrangement would result in a two-tier Communion but no church would be expelled.<\/p>\n