Two leading Anglo-Catholic bishops presented differing visions for regaining Anglican unity at \u201cThe Hope and Future of Orthodoxy in the Anglican Communion: A Festival of Faith Conference,\u201d\u009d held Sept. 13 at St. Luke\u2019s Church, Bladensburg, Md.<\/p>\n
The Most Rev. Drexel Gomez, Archbishop of the West Indies, and the Rt. Rev. Keith Ackerman, Bishop of Quincy, were the featured speakers at St. Luke\u2019s, an Anglo-Catholic parish in the Diocese of Washington.<\/p>\n
The bishops agreed that Anglican unity remains torn, just as the primates said it would be, by the consecration of the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson as the Bishop of New Hampshire\u201d\u201dand by the deeper theological divisions evident in The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Gomez stressed the importance of a Communion-wide covenant being drafted by an international panel that he leads. \u201cThere is nothing on the horizon that offers reasonable hope of holding the Communion together, other than the covenant,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n