Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The new Archbishop of Armagh

http://www.reform-ireland.org/article/236

[Reform Ireland] 6 June 2007--The human sexuality issue is the centrally divisive issue of today within Anglicanism. Reform Ireland was alarmed at the comments made by the new Archbishop-elect in his recent interview with William Crawley, on BBC Radio Ulster’s Sunday Sequence (14th January 2007), and especially at his failure to uphold the orthodox, biblical and traditional church teaching on this issue. Reform Ireland is aware that the new Archbishop-elect has in the past expressed similar unbiblical views which led to some of the clergy in Connor diocese writing to him to express their grave concerns. We note that in the past the new Archbishop-elect has stated that he would not permit the blessing of same-sex relationships but last Sunday’s interview raised serious doubts about the direction he would lead the church of Ireland on this issue. We would call on the new Archbishop-elect to shun false teaching and to state publicly that he is in agreement with the traditional and orthodox teaching of the Church of Ireland on the issue of human sexuality and that he agrees with Lambeth I.10. Failure to uphold the orthodox teaching of the church on marriage and sexuality may well lead to the Church of Ireland itself being cut off from world-wide Anglicanism that is remaining faithful to the Bible and traditional Christian teaching.

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