I write to urge you not to bring further discord into The Episcopal Church. Visiting a special convocation of the Diocese of Fort Worth with the expressed purpose of describing removal to the Province of the Southern Cone is an unprecedented and unwarranted invasion of, and meddling in, the internal affairs of this Province. I ask you to consider how you might receive such a visit to your own Province from a fellow primate. The actions contemplated by some leaders in Fort Worth are profoundly uncanonical. They also prevent needed reconciliation from proceeding within this Province.
I urge you to focus your pastoral ministry within your own Province. May your ministry there be fruitful. I remain
Your servant in Christ,
Katharine Jefferts Schori
Bishop Iker of Fort Worth responds:
Archbishop Venables is coming to the Diocese at my invitation and as an honored guest, which hardly makes it “an unwarranted invasion.” The only meddling going on here is on Katharine’s part. And who is she to accuse someone else of uncanonical actions?
+JLI
Another comment at Stand Firm:
It is interesting how the PB spends an inordinate amount of time warning primates not to meddle in the US, writing letters threatening conservative American bishops, suing parishes, and planning and scheming strategy to smash this conservative backlash against the innovations of the last few year, while all of the time saying that this is just an insignificant few in the church who are doing this. If this is such an insignificant few, why Kate are you spending so much of your time and energy on them?
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