Bishop Duncan writes to orthodox Anglicans

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[Anglican Mainstream] 12 Mar 2007--The following pastoral letter from the Rt. Rev. Robert Wm. Duncan, Moderator of the Anglican Communion Network, was released on Friday, March 9, to Network priests with the encouragement to read it or make it available to their parishes on Sunday, March 11.

“Both parties are still technically within the marriage. But marital separations never leave one party “under” the other; such an arrangement would be doomed to failure from the start. The words of the Dar es Salaam Communique and Key Recommendations are carefully chosen. Any sense that the Pastoral Council and Primatial Vicar are “under” majority TEC is absent from the documents themselves, would surely doom the vision to failure, and could hardly prove “a sufficiently strong scheme.”

“Most of us, but certainly not all, in the Anglican Communion Network now believe that it is the Episcopal Church majority’s clear and continuing intention to “walk apart” in matters of Faith and Order. Nevertheless, we owe it to our beloved Communion to follow the Primates’ wisdom as to how to take a last step in that discernment.