Friday, March 07, 2008

Border-crossing is out, say Windsor bishops of US plan

http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=52614

[Church Times] 7 Mar 2008--The so-called Camp Allen or Windsor bishops in the United States have presented the Presiding Bishop, Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, and the Archbishop of Canterbury with a proposal for oversight of parishes and dioceses that decline to engage with liberal bishops or accept Dr Jefferts Schori’s oversight.

The bishops are conservatives who endorse the recommendations for an Anglican Covenant. Eighteen met Canon Gregory Cameron of the Anglican Communion Office for a briefing before the House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans last year. Previously, some met the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright, and the Bishop of Winchester, the Rt Revd Michael Scott-Joynt.

Dr Wright said then that they needed encouragement to “extend their left arms as far as they can in one direction and their right arms in another to prevent what could otherwise be multiple fracturing and break-up” (News, 11 August 2006).

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