++Venables and the Southern Cone Punished for Helping Orthodox Anglicans in North America and Elsewhere

from Texanglican by Texanglican (R.W. Foster+)

The Province of the Southern Cone of the Americas, headed by Archbishop Gregory Venables, has just been sanctioned by Canon Kearon, the General Secretary of the Anglican Communion Office, for helping orthodox Anglican parishes and dioceses trapped within heretical provinces like the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada. The South Americans' have now been rewarded for their courageous stand on behalf of "the faith once delivered to the saints" by having their sole representative removed from an important inter-Anglican body, the Standing Committee on Unity, Faith, and Order. Naturally, this move by the staunchly liberal Canon Kearon also serves to diminish orthodox voices on that committee almost to non-existence.

May God bless the people and clergy of the Southern Cone, and ++Venables in particular, richly for their willingness to be of service to their brothers and sisters in Christ--including my own diocese--even in the face of such opposition from the forces of "progress."

[see ACNS post below. ed.]