Friday, February 06, 2009

Anglican church leaders to bring in 'relationship counsellors' over sexuality dispute

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4530281/Anglican-church-leaders-to-bring-in-relationship-counsellors-over-sexuality-dispute.html

[Telegraph] 6 Feb 2009--Professional mediators are to be used by church leaders in an attempt to resolve the deep divisions within the Anglican Communion over sexuality.

A report backed by the heads of all the Anglican provinces around the world has put forward the innovative proposal as a way to settle the dispute between conservatives, who oppose the ordination of homosexual clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions, and liberals.

The external mediators will try to reconcile differences between the Common Cause Partnership, a group of orthodox Anglicans in America and Canada who want to set up a new province, and the national churches from which they have split.

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