Friday, June 15, 2007

The Episcopal Church's Commitment to Common Life in the Anglican Communion

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/3656/

[Stand Firm] 15 June 2007--We understand the requests made by the primates from Dar es Salaam in February, 2007 as a good-faith contribution to that on-going conversation. Still, the requests of the primates are of a nature that can only properly be dealt with by our General Convention. Neither the Executive Council, the Presiding Bishop, nor the House of Bishops can give binding interpretations of General Convention resolutions nor make an "unequivocal common commitment" to denying future decisions by dioceses or General Convention. We question the authority of the primates to impose deadlines and demands upon any of the churches of the Anglican Communion or to prescribe the relationships within any of the other instruments of our common life, including the Anglican Consultative Council.

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