Schism: it is the fact of the matter

http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2008/12/13/schism-it-is-the-fact-of-the-matter/

[Anglican Mainstream] 13 Dec 2008--Most religious affairs correspondents have struck the word ‘schism’ from their vocabulary in describing the state of the Anglican Communion. This is partly because every stage of turmoil and each new meeting of the Communion’s instruments potentially promises the final split. Yet it never seems to come.

My view is that the ‘schism’ took place in 2003 when the Americans explicitly broke with church tradition and teaching by consecrating a practicing homosexual bishop.

As a result a number of provinces declared themselves out of communion with The Episcopal Church, others were in a state of impaired communion.