Posted on 06/25/2008 8:10:21 PM PDT by T Ruth
For a century the Lambeth Conference has been one of the events keeping intact this largest Protestant church grouping in the world.
Now, for the first time, and just when the Anglican Communion is most at risk of disintegration, almost a third of the bishops invited to attend have decided to boycott the meeting.
It is a blow to the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams who wants to use the conference to heal the rift over sexuality which has driven the Communion to the brink of a permanent split.
The 250 bishops who have said they will stay away from the conference are attending what amounts to a rival meeting in Jerusalem.
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As I’ve said before, if someone was ordained a bishop and then turned out to be gay, that would be one thing. Regretable, but not a cause of schism. But if the American Episcopal bishops get together and openly and deliberately ordain someone a bishop BECAUSE they are gay, and say so in a loud voice, that is something else.
Compare it to the case of Catholic bishop Rembert Weakland, who was a dissident and trouble maker in the Church for years, and then finally was given the boot because he was revealed to have bought off his boyfriend with Church funds.
Now, it is possible that Cardinal Bernardin and others KNEW that Weakland was gay when they recommended his ordination as bishop. But they kept that secret to themselves. The worst aspect of the ordination of Bishop Robinson is that it was a conscious, open, public, and even boastful act on the part of the bishops who controlled the Episcopal Church. That was unforgiveable.
How interesting. The church founded on divorce and remarriage, which then followed the logic to contraception, then to gay marriage now falls apart.
Sex allowed apart from a life committment of a biological male and female open to childrenleads us to difficult places.
Well said Antoninus, may the Faithful Episcopalians retain their Faith in Christ and his Saving Grace, no matter what a plainly Heretical Conference issues as their “opinion”.
Africa has literally taken over Canterbury as the Seat of Moral Authority, as the Bible says “Those who have little, that will be taken away from them and given to those who have much”.
Nice to see bishops with moral backbone.
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