GAFCON Pilgrims Face Questions on Communion’s Future

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2008/6/23/gafcon-pilgrims-face-questions-on-communions-future

[The Living Church] 24 Jun 2008--There will be no conservative-led schism within the Anglican Communion, the Archbishop of Nigeria told some 300 bishops and 700 clergy and lay leaders on June 22, the Global Anglican Future Conference’s opening day in Jerusalem.

But Archbishop Peter Akinola expressed his disappointment with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams for ignoring the pleas of traditionalists that he act quickly to resolve the crisis. Archbishop Williams was “not interested in what matters to us, in what we think or in what we say,” he said, but he refrained from criticising Archbishop Williams by name, reserving his opprobrium for decisions taken by “Lambeth Palace.”

Archbishop Akinola said it “would be presumptuous of me to offer advise” to California bishops who are seeking ways of incorporating last month’s state court decision authorizing gay marriage into the liturgical life of The Episcopal Church. But he said the introduction of gay marriage was a consequence of sin and a failure of the church to maintain standards. “If the church had been faithful we would not be in that mess,” Archbishop Akinola said.