The group of Global South and GAFCON Primates that met in Cairo have issued a communiqué in which they state that they will be accepting Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s invitation to attend a Primates’ gathering this coming January.
According
to George Conger’s sources the first agenda item this group of primates is
proposing is "a Communion-wide response to the recent actions of the
Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada in changing the received
doctrine and discipline of the church on issues surrounding homosexuality.”
But do they really expect to accomplish anything? They must
realize that the liberal primates are not going to support any proposal to
censure the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.
Surely they are not expecting a major breakthrough.
Calling for the inclusion of this item on the meeting agenda,
I suspect, may be these Primates’ way of
justifying their attendance at the gathering and of mollifying their various
constituencies.
They can always blame the lack of progress on the issues of marriage and human sexuality on
the intransigence of the liberals while pointing to the progress on other
issues.
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