Thursday, July 13, 2006

Quandary ahead on women bishops

http://www.churchnewspaper.com/news.php?read=on&number_key=5828&title=Quandary%20ahead%20on%20women%20bishops

[The Church of England Newspaper] 13 Jul 2006--A new legislative group has been given the ‘brief from hell’ to find new legislative arrangements for ordaining women bishops without splitting the Church of England asunder. After two years of seeking a way forward in legislation to create provisions both for ordaining women and to satisfy opponents in the House of Bishops, the General Synod decided to put the task in the hands of a special legislative group. The ‘flying’ Bishop of Beverley, the Rt Rev Martyn Jarrett, said that he could not believe that the new legislative group would be any more successful than the Guildford group which put together proposals for Transferred Episcopal Arrangements, or indeed the House of Bishops which has failed to come up with any sort of plan.

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