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A DIVIDED CHURCH OF ENGLAND FACES ITS DARKEST HOUR
Special Report
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 13, 2010
One British newspaper headline seemed to sum it up: "A divided church faces its darkest hour".
By rejecting a compromise over women bishops last weekend, the General Synod of the Church of England has plunged the Church of England into a crisis from which it cannot easily extricate itself.
Furthermore, the authority of a humiliated Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury has been wounded by his defeat in the Synod.
A compromise resolution submitted by him and the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu went down in flames. Many believe this is the end of the Church of England, as we know it. They may be right.
On Saturday night, the Archbishop of Canterbury suffered the most humiliating defeat of his time in office when the Church rejected his compromise deal over women bishops. It followed a week in which Rowan Williams found himself at the center of a storm over the blocked appointment of Jeffrey John, the homosexual Dean of St Albans, to be Bishop of Southwark.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Special Report
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
July 13, 2010
One British newspaper headline seemed to sum it up: "A divided church faces its darkest hour".By rejecting a compromise over women bishops last weekend, the General Synod of the Church of England has plunged the Church of England into a crisis from which it cannot easily extricate itself.
Furthermore, the authority of a humiliated Rowan Williams as Archbishop of Canterbury has been wounded by his defeat in the Synod.
A compromise resolution submitted by him and the Archbishop of York, Dr. John Sentamu went down in flames. Many believe this is the end of the Church of England, as we know it. They may be right.
On Saturday night, the Archbishop of Canterbury suffered the most humiliating defeat of his time in office when the Church rejected his compromise deal over women bishops. It followed a week in which Rowan Williams found himself at the center of a storm over the blocked appointment of Jeffrey John, the homosexual Dean of St Albans, to be Bishop of Southwark.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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