Friday, August 08, 2008

The high price of togetherness

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11900567

[Economist.com] 8 Aug 2008--But the apparent lull in the storms buffeting Anglicanism looks temporary. Among the bishops who attended, there was broad agreement that it would be a good idea to maintain a moratorium in respect of the three actions (two by liberals and one by conservatives) that have nearly split the Communion. These are the consecration of openly gay clergy and, in particular, bishops; the approval of marriage-like rites for same-sex couples; and the “intervention” by conservative bishops (above all from Africa) in the affairs of liberal-dominated dioceses (often in North America). In other words, bishops in the southern hemisphere should stop taking traditionalist parishes or dioceses under their wing and consecrating new bishops for benighted, liberal lands. It was proposed that the woes of conservative communities who feel trapped in liberal dioceses should be addressed by a Communion-wide “pastoral forum” overseen by Mr Williams.

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