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[LifeSiteNews.com] 18 Jul 2008--The opening yesterday of the fourteenth Lambeth Conference, the once-in-ten years meeting of the bishops of the Worldwide Anglican Communion, holds no hope of major reforms of the Anglican Church, according to the leader of the traditionalist movement in the US.
Nearly one third of the Communion's bishops have declined to attend Lambeth in protest. That third of the episcopate, however, represents 30 million of the Anglican Church's 55 million active adherents worldwide, or well over half.
"[W]e may be participating in the demise of the third largest Christian communion in the world," said Keith Ackerman, Episcopal bishop of Quincy in Illinois.
The Anglican Church is breaking up over the acceptance by its ultra-liberal and heavily secularised North American and British branches of homosexuality as morally equivalent to natural sexuality and their insistence on forcing the rest of the Communion to follow suit.
Ackerman, who is also the President of Forward in Faith North America, spoke to Anglican journalist David Virtue in Canterbury, England, on the eve of the opening of Lambeth. He said that this Conference will "require a very honest analysis of what it means to be a communion," indicating, however, that he holds little hope that this analysis will happen at the Conference.
The break-up of the Anglican Communion, Ackerman said, is being orchestrated by the Church's higher levels of leadership, without the support of the majority of Anglican laity.
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