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Roman Catholics issue warning to Eames Number: 5724 Date: July 1, A right of appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury may be needed to resolve disputes in the Anglican Communion, argue a group of Roman Catholic and Anglican leaders in a submission to the Lambeth Commission led by Archbishop Robin Eames. The submission by a sub-commission of the Inter Anglican and Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and Mission, claims that the crisis represented by the consecration of a practising homosexual bishop in the United States could seriously damage relationships between the two Churches. They argue that the current situation suggests...

Anglican Communion Network Outlines Presentation to the Lambeth Commission June 22, 2004 For Immediate Release June 22, 2004 Contact: Cynthia P. Brust 202-296-5360 202-412-8721 THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION NETWORK OUTLINES PRESENTATION TO THE LAMBETH COMMISSION The Lambeth Commission, meeting June 14 – 18, 2004 at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, NC, heard strongly divergent viewpoints during their session on Tuesday, June 15. A team of five individuals representing the Anglican Communion Network and other mainstream Anglican voices within ECUSA offered testimony about chaos and disarray within the Episcopal Church and recommended specific action. The Rt. Rev. Robert M. Duncan, Moderator of...

PRESIDING BISHOP MEETS WITH THE LAMBETH COMMISSION News Analysis By David W. Virtue When the Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold met with the Lambeth Commission in Kanuga this week this is what he said: "We sought to give a full and accurate picture of the present state of our church, and to dispel a number of misapprehensions. As Presiding Bishop of the whole church it was important for me to make sure that I, along with my colleagues, sought honestly to represent the breadth of views and the depth of feeling that exists in different parts of our household. At the...

Bible societies, both in this country and abroad, do a marvelous job of getting Bibles into the hands of people around the world. But they need to work much harder at getting them into the hands of Anglican clergymen: A senior Church of England bishop has warned that global warming could be the next punishment for “man’s disobedience”, and admitted that Christianity had been used to encourage misuse of the environment. Within 50 years, 150 million people could be made refugees as a result of man-made climate change, according to the scientist, Sir John Houghton, who was formerly Chief Executive...

EAMES COMMISSION AIMS AT RESOLVING SEXUALITY ISSUES Who's Who in the Commission? News Analysis By David W. Virtue Irish Archbishop Robin Eames will chair a 17-member commission, at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to look at the legal and theological implications arising from recent innovations in some Western provinces regarding human sexuality. The members have been appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Commission is expected to begin its work early in the New Year. The commission will focus its attention on the decision of the Diocese of New Westminster to authorize a service...

Williams anger as ceremony for gay bishop tears Church apart By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 03/11/2003) The worldwide Anglican Church was torn apart last night, with the Archbishop of Canterbury leading the critics of its first openly active homosexual bishop. Dr Rowan Williams, who has found himself in the eye of the most destructive storm in Anglican history, expressed profound regret at the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire. He said: "The divisions that are arising are a matter of deep regret; they will be all too visible in the fact that it will not...

ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE ACNS 3658 | LAMBETH PALACE | 3 NOVEMBER 2003 Statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury following the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as Bishop-coadjutor of New Hampshire Please note: Strict Embargo to 0030 hrs Monday 3rd November 2003 [ACNS Source: Lambeth Palace] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has issued a statement following the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire. The text is below. "It was recognised fully at last month's meeting of Anglican leaders that the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop in New Hampshire would have very serious...

The following analysis of the members of the Commission was provided to me from someone who has been watching things Anglican for a number of years - I am posting it here by permission of the author who (for rather obvious reasons) wishes to remain anonymous. Anyone with further observations on Commission members is welcome to post said observations in this thread. -------------------------------------------------- * Archbishop Robin Eames, Primate of All Ireland, Chairman, A company man. He first went left, than right at the Primates meeting. A corporatist and someone of whom I would be leery. * The Revd Canon Alyson...

ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE ACNS 3652 | LAMBETH PALACE | 28 OCTOBER 2003 Anglican Communion - Commission announced [ACNS source: Lambeth Palace] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has announced the makeup and the terms of reference for a Commission to look at life in the Anglican Communion in the light of recent events. It is to be made up of members appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and will be chaired by the Most Revd Robin Eames, Archbishop of Armagh. The Commission, which is expected to begin its work early in the New Year, was formed as a...

BAPTIST LEADER REFLECTS ON PRIMATES MEETING An Alarm Sounds in London: Will It Matter? By Albert Mohler Friday, October 17, 2003 The emergency meeting of the primates of the Anglican Communion ended yesterday with the 37 national leaders of the Anglican churches still trying to prevent a schism in their ranks. They released a unanimous statement warning that their communion would be torn asunder by action of the Episcopal Church (USA)to consecrate the first openly homosexual bishop of the church. The release of the statement came after two days of meetings in London under the glare of press speculation and...

Bishop Howe Reports on Lambeth Bishop John W. Howe was among a group of four U.S. bishops invited to meet with members of the 38 Anglican Communion primates who gathered the week of Oct. 12 in London. A small group of generous Central Florida Episcopalians provided the resources for Bishop Howe to make the trip, to represent the Diocese of Central Florida and a large sector of the Episcopal Church. Here is his report: The word from Lambeth Palace tonight is that the Primates have issued a unanimous statement - one that includes the agreement of our Presiding Bishop, Frank...

Analysis: Anglican Huff and Puff By Uwe Siemon-Netto UPI Religion Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Was this week's Anglican confab in London just Huff and Puff and then a good nap, as American theological commentator Christopher Hershman suggested Friday? Was it a gentlemanly finger-wagging in the direction of the Episcopal Church U.S.A., followed by a daring step - handing the whole matter of homosexuality in the Church over to a commission for a one-year study? Was it, as an observer told Hershman, a postmodern rendering of Luther's famous "Here I stand"? Was it something like, "Here I crawl. I...

Williams foresees 'huge crisis' on homosexual issue By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 18/10/2003) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, said yesterday that the worldwide Anglican Church still faced "a huge crisis" over homosexuality, despite the consensus reached at Lambeth Palace this week. He forecast that conservative areas of the Church would split from the liberal American Episcopal Church when Anglicanism's first openly active homosexual bishop was consecrated in 16 days. Although an immediate collapse of the worldwide Church was averted at the two-day primates' meeting, some of the more hard-line provinces could walk out over the next few...

REFLECTIONS ON THE WORK AND THE STATEMENT OF THE PRIMATES GATHERED THIS WEEK AT LAMBETH PALACE The eyes of most of the Anglican Communion have been fixed closely on the 37 Primates gathered this week at Lambeth Palace. +Thad Barnum, +John Rodgers, Canon Tim Smith, and I have all spent this week in London at the request of our two sponsoring Archbishops. Now that they have left for home, we all felt that it would be good to provide some perspective and reflection on this important meeting, and the statement that has been released around the world. Scripture reminds us...

REV. CANON DR. BILL ATWOOD FROM LONDON I just got off the phone with one of the major London newspapers. The religion editor said, "At first we didn't think much had happened, but as we have digested the statement we have come to realize it is a massive victory for the conservative position. Do you agree with that assessment?" I do. Having been in conversation with primates before, during, and after their meeting, let me explain a few things. The commitments of the primates at this meeting are Biblical, Christian, and good. It is not a waffle, sell-out, or liberal...

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES SEE VICTORY AT LAMBETH New Analysis By David W. Virtue LONDON-American Episcopal conservative leaders here at Lambeth say that the Statement issued by 37 Primates was an overwhelming victory for orthodoxy, and that Frank Griswold was told in clear and blunt terms that if appeared at, and/or consecrated Gene Robinson he will be declared "anathema" by the Archbishop of Canterbury and in time expelled from the Anglican Communion. Lines have hardened and there is no way back for the leader of the theologically liberal Episcopal Church if he goes through with the consecration of Gene Robinson. Arguments Griswold...

KENYAN ARCHBISHOP SAYS GRISWOLD STRONGLY CONFRONTED BY PRIMATES By David W. Virtue LONDON-The Archbishop of Kenya, Benjamin Nzimbi, said that ECUSA's Presiding Bishop was "seriously confronted" by the orthodox Primates at closed-door meetings this week, and it was made abundantly clear to him the consequences of his rebellion. "We asked Griswold to speak to Robinson and tell him that his consecration would cause deep pain to the communion and result in a break, but the Presiding Bishop said he had no authority to change Robinson's mind," said Nzimbi. "We asked him to use moral persuasion," said the archbishop, who recently...

PRIMATES SAY COMMUNION WILL FRACTURE IF ROBINSON CONSECRATION PROCEEDS Some Conservatives See Hopes Shortchanged News Analysis By David W. Virtue With Auburn Traycik CHURCH HOUSE LONDON-The world's Anglican primates have spoken. The "fabric" of the Anglican Communion will "tear" if Gene Robinson, the non-celibate homosexual Episcopal Bishop-elect of New Hampshire, is consecrated next month. In a unanimously-agreed statement delivered yesterday, strongly reaffirming the global Anglican teaching on homosexuality, the Primates concluded that "if this consecration proceeds, we recognize that we have reached a crucial and critical point in the life of the Anglican Communion." They said that the future of...

A Statement by the Primates of the Anglican Communion meeting in Lambeth Palace The Primates of the Anglican Communion and the Moderators of the United Churches, meeting together at Lambeth Palace on the 15th and 16th October, 2003, wish to express our gratitude to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, for calling us together in response to recent events in the Diocese of New Westminster, Canada, and the Episcopal Church (USA), and welcoming us into his home so that we might take counsel together, and to seek to discern, in an atmosphere of common prayer and worship, the will...

TENSION MOUNTS AS PRIMATES MOVE INTO FINAL HOURS OF DELIBERATION News Analysis By David W. Virtue LONDON-It is make or break time as 37 Primates move into the final hours before they declare whether they have saved the Anglican communion from collapse. It is tense time outside Lambeth Palace and around the nearby hotels as orthodox Episcopal bishops, leaders from the American Anglican Council, journalists of one stripe or another wait in anticipation for any morsel of news that might come their way from whatever sources they might have. The Rev. Dr. David Roseberry has arrived with some 2,000 signed...