Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The Church is not inclusive

http://www.nd.nl/htm/dossier/seksualiteit/artikelen/060819eb.htm

[Nederlands Dagblad] 22 Aug 2006--What will happen to the six or more dioceses in America that have asked for alternative primatial oversight?

"I don't know yet. We are working intensively on what this might mean. I don't want to make up church law on the back of an envelope, because in fact it's a very complicated situation.''

It would constitute a split in the American church.

"Indeed, and quite a serious one. And I have great concern for the vast majority of Episcopal Christians in the US who don't wish to move away from the Communion at all, but who don't particularly want to join a separatist part of their Church either. I want to give them time to find what the best way is.''

But these dioceses and the group around them won't hold out in ECUSA for too long. '

'No, and it is perhaps a rather larger group than some have presented it as being. I know too that if Canterbury doesn't help, there will be other provinces that are very ready to help. And I don't especially want to see the Anglican Church becoming like the Orthodox Church, where in some American cities you see the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Romanian Orthodox Church. I don't want to see in the cities of America the American Anglican Church, the Nigerian Anglican Church, the Egyptian Anglican Church and the English Anglican Church in the same street.''

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