Episcopal Church Split All But Certain

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[CitizenLink] June 22, 2006--Leaders of the Episcopal Church of the USA have adopted a resolution urging the church's dioceses not to appoint bishops whose "manner of life" would "pose a challenge" to the Anglican Communion.

But The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner, an orthodox conservative Episcopal theologian, said the statement approved by the church's general convention in Columbus, Ohio, is weak and doesn't come close to what the Worldwide Anglican Communion asked of the American church — that it "repent" for having consecrated a homosexual bishop in 2003 and pledge that it won't elect any more gay bishops.

"They were also asked to deal with the problem of same-sex blessings," Radner said, "and they chose not to deal with that at all, which is a problem."

The statement may — or may not — keep the larger world church from distancing itself from the American branch of Anglicanism.