Monday, May 23, 2011

Quite close?

Anglican Communion 'quite close to being dysfunctional', says leading UK layman

Anglican Communion 'quite close to being dysfunctional', senior English layman

The Chair of the Church of England General Synod's House of Laity, Dr Philip Giddings, in an interview last week with the Gazette editor, said that the Anglican Communion today was "quite close to being dysfunctional", adding that the Communion's instruments "clearly are not working as effectively as they need to".

Dr Giddings, who gave the interview in Armagh during the Church of Ireland General Synod at which he was an official visitor, was referring to the ongoing difficulties in inter-Anglican relations centring on the issue of same-sex relationships, which became critical following the consecration in 2003 of the partnered gay Bishop Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.

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