Sunday, February 20, 2011

A Protest against the New Primatial Standing Committee

A Protest against the New Primatial Standing Committee

The Primates - all of them - need to reverse and revoke the appointment of the American Presiding Bishop to the Primates' Standing Committee

by Benjamin Guyer
http://covenant-communion.net/
February 17, 2011

The recent election of Katharine Jefferts Schori to the Primates' Standing Committee is a matter of considerable shock and disappointment. For some, it is a matter of outrage, and not unfairly so. Her election is perhaps the most destructive decision that could have been made by the Primates who recently gathered in Dublin.

Jefferts Schori has repeatedly refused to lead the American Episcopal Church in observance of the moratoria called for by the Windsor Report, and she has done nothing to ameliorate the difficult conditions faced by many faithful Anglicans within the American province. Indeed, these already difficult conditions have acutely worsened under her primacy, and membership decline in the Episcopal Church has only continued unabated. How then can she be elected in good faith?

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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