Posted on 11/16/2009 7:46:37 AM PST by SmithL
Hundreds of worshippers packed into Sacramento’s Trinity Cathedral on Sunday morning to hear the nation’s leader of the Episcopal Church talk about the need to embrace change.
“Changing isn’t the problem,” said Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in her message. “Our fear and anxiety about it is.”
Jefferts Schori spoke to a supportive and welcoming crowd. After all, she interned at the midtown cathedral 16 years ago. Sunday she returned to deliver a message of hope and change for the Episcopal Church that has been marked by controversy in recent years.
Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church for three years, has been at the center of that turmoil.
Many worldwide Anglican leaders – the Episcopal Church is the American branch of the union – have condemned U.S. church leaders for ordaining the first openly gay bishop and welcoming gay clergy. Some conservative U.S. bishops and their parishes broke away from the church over this issue. Membership in all but four U.S. Episcopal dioceses fell last year, according to Jefferts Schori.
“Decisions made here sometimes irritate other people,” said Jefferts Schori. “We also embarrass other parts of the Communion when we talk about sexuality.”
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Thanks. We’ve re-purposed the Traditional Anglican Ping List away from discussions of TEC alone.
WELL, if I saw you driving a car off a cliff, I would think fear and anxiety would be an appropriate emotion: indeed, if enough people in the car were afraid, maybe they’d yank the steering wheel away from the dangerous driver to stop a disaster.
But since I’m Catholic and we have been having scandals for 2000 years, I’ll keep quiet.
WELL, if I saw you driving a car off a cliff, I would think fear and anxiety would be an appropriate emotion: indeed, if enough people in the car were afraid, maybe they’d yank the steering wheel away from the dangerous driver to stop a disaster.
But since I’m Catholic and we have been having scandals for 2000 years, I’ll keep quiet.
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