DUBLIN: The Primates Meeting - A Review and Analysis
DUBLIN: The Primates Meeting - A Review and Analysis
By David W. Virtue in Dublin
www.virtueonline.org
February 2, 2011
They came, they talked, they issued statements on a variety of pressing social issues, they lit a candle and they looked at 15 empty chairs for six days. Then they went home. They did not issue a single communiqué.
By any yardstick, the most recent meeting of some 23 Anglican archbishops was a bust.
The empty chairs served as a daily reminder that a dozen of their brethren were not there because at least one of their number, a woman presiding bishop had defied the Windsor Report, Lambeth 1:10. The Covenant (with a disciplinary section) has, to date, only three signers and is still circling the Communion. Katharine Jefferts Schori consecrated an avowed lesbian to the episcopacy an act that has forever separated her from orthodox Anglicans.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David W. Virtue in Dublin
www.virtueonline.org
February 2, 2011
They came, they talked, they issued statements on a variety of pressing social issues, they lit a candle and they looked at 15 empty chairs for six days. Then they went home. They did not issue a single communiqué.By any yardstick, the most recent meeting of some 23 Anglican archbishops was a bust.
The empty chairs served as a daily reminder that a dozen of their brethren were not there because at least one of their number, a woman presiding bishop had defied the Windsor Report, Lambeth 1:10. The Covenant (with a disciplinary section) has, to date, only three signers and is still circling the Communion. Katharine Jefferts Schori consecrated an avowed lesbian to the episcopacy an act that has forever separated her from orthodox Anglicans.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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