Tuesday, March 11, 2008

US House of Bishops to discuss pastoral plan

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=1727

[Religious Intelligence] 11 Mar 2008--The pastoral plan for embattled American traditionalists brought by four bishops to US Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will be discussed at this month’s meeting of the US House of Bishops in Texas, a spokesman for the national church tells Religious Intelligence.

Crafted by a consortium of American bishops, overseas primates and scholars associated with the Anglican Communion Institute, the plan seeks to take requests made by the primates for pastoral support for American conservatives forward, but structured in such a way as to work within the constitutional and canonical confines of the US church.

Fort Worth Bishop Jack Iker has been critical of the plan, writing on an American blog that it appeared to him “to involve bishops standing in a circle, holding hands and thinking positive thoughts, with hopes that something good might come of all this.”

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