Call for Meeting of Primates

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[Covenant] 3 Oct 2007--The statement by the American House of Bishops following their recently-concluded meeting in New Orleans may be interpreted as a step—tentative, perhaps—in the right direction, a genuine attempt to articulate a commitment to communion, beyond mere partisanship and assertions of autonomy.

In the context, however, of “torn fabric” in the Anglican Communion, as the American bishops candidly acknowledged, their excruciatingly careful compromise reveals the needed assurance to the Instruments of Communion less fully and clearly than the present circumstances call for. A pragmatic ceasefire among one part of the Anglican family, while surely welcome, does not itself carry off the “repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation enjoined on us by Christ” (Windsor Report §134) that will be the measure of peace truly restored.