FT. WORTH: Dissident Episcopal Stayers in Quandary over Their Future

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9746

[VirtueOnline] 14 Jan 2009--Dissident Episcopal priests and their parishes in the Diocese of Ft. Worth have backed themselves into a corner and they don't know what to do about it.

Their diocese is no longer a constituent member of the Episcopal Church. Because they refuse to recognize their bishop, the Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker who has moved his diocese (by an 80 to 20 vote) to the Province of the Southern Cone, they now say they want their own bishop.

They have also invited Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori into two of their parishes to celebrate the Eucharist in February - an action deemed "uncanonical" by traditionalist bishop Iker.