Dumbing down the Communion

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[Anglixcan Mianstream] 25 May 2007--The Living Church, a web and print newspaper of the Anglican Church in the United States, reports a speech by the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion in which he says that the Anglican Consultative Council’s synodical organization allows it to work in collaboration with the various types of church government or polity found across the Communion. What holds the Communion together is the “figure of the Archbishop of Canterbury” as Anglicans across the globe are “not in communion with one another but with him.”

Canon Kearon has a track record in ministries of reconciliation in Ireland and must be rejoicing with others at the current developments of the restoration of devolved powers to a power-sharing government. This process has recognized and makes space for both the unionist and nationalist causes in Ireland.

In this speech he is clearly making a contribution to the current political crisis in the Communion. That is that up to 18 provinces have declared that they are in some way out of communion with The Episcopal Church, a fact that was visibly demonstrated at the Tanzanian meeting when 7 primates wrote a letter explaining why they in particular could not take Holy Communion with Presiding Bishop Schori....