Church's new leader tells of her mission

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/321119_joel25.html

[Seattle Post-Intelligencer] 26 June 2007--So far, [Katharine Jefferts] Schori is speaking softly, but signaling that there may be a steel fist beneath the velvet glove.

Backed by the national church, the Diocese of Virginia has launched legal action to regain property of the breakaway congregations.

Schori said her approach is to act as the church's chief pastor, keep dialogue going, and work toward "adaptive solutions" that will "hold us together" despite differences."

If the pastoral responses fail, and there are attempts to destroy the structure, the way you respond is the structural way, the canonical way," she said. "When you get out the big guns, the pastoral solution has failed."

And, in the American way, the faithful may end up fighting it out in civil court.