Thursday, July 29, 2010

Kearon and the Episcopal Fraud

Sometimes in blogging it is easy to pull the best stories, post them, and forget about them. After all, tomorrow is another day with another slew of important news. However, Kenneth Kearon's statements at a press conference in Canada bear further scrutiny. I've posted them below in the blog post from Timotheos Prologizes. Canon Kearon says bluntly that the Episcopal Fraud does not share the faith and order of the vast majority of the Anglican Communion."

STOP THE PRESSES! Do you realize the import of that statement, particularly coming from Kenneth Kearon? The ACI folks do, and that is part of their argument in their latest missive about the Anglican Consultive Council, "Contrasting Futures" (also posted below). While the primary concern is the increasing power of the ACC relative to the other three instruments of unity, the overleaf is the handling of the continuing crisis in Anglicanism.

Leaders in TEF have understood the import of Kearon's words and have responded accordingly, which is to say that they are apoplectic. They are actually feigning astonishment that the Anglican Communion has sanctioned them even though sanctions have been on the table since the Windsor Report.

TEF has clearly shown that they don't accept the faith of the Anglican Communion and the consecration makes it equally clear that TEF doesn't accept the order of the AC. It has taken a long seven years since TEF first violated the faith of the AC, now that she has demonstrated that she doesn't care about the order of the AC by consecrating Mary Glasspool sanctions are the proper response. Fr. Timothy of Timotheos Prologizes asks the right question. Given that TEF doesn't hold to either the faith or order of the Anglican Communion why are they at the table anymore at all? I know that there is a desire for TEF to return to the faith and order of the AC, but what chance is there of that?

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