UK: Traditionalist Anglican leaders to meet over homosexual bishops 'crisis'
UK: Traditionalist Anglican leaders to meet over homosexual bishops 'crisis'
A high-powered group of traditionalist Anglican church leaders are to gather in London to address a growing "crisis" over openly homosexual bishops
Dr Rowan Williams will this year step down amid criticism he has failed to heal divisions over sexuality
By Edward Malnick
THE TELEGRAPH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/
April 15, 2012
They want to restore "orthodox" values to the worldwide Anglican Communion and outlaw liberal church leaders who have rejected traditional teaching.
They will meet for the first time since more than 200 bishops boycotted an official summit for Anglican leaders in 2008 in protest at the presence of bishops from the US Episcopal Church, which consecrated the first openly homosexual Anglican bishop.
The decision by the leaders to hold talks in Britain is likely to increase tensions between the traditionalists and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who will this year step down amid criticism he has failed to heal divisions over sexuality.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
A high-powered group of traditionalist Anglican church leaders are to gather in London to address a growing "crisis" over openly homosexual bishops
Dr Rowan Williams will this year step down amid criticism he has failed to heal divisions over sexuality
By Edward Malnick
THE TELEGRAPH
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/
April 15, 2012
They want to restore "orthodox" values to the worldwide Anglican Communion and outlaw liberal church leaders who have rejected traditional teaching.They will meet for the first time since more than 200 bishops boycotted an official summit for Anglican leaders in 2008 in protest at the presence of bishops from the US Episcopal Church, which consecrated the first openly homosexual Anglican bishop.
The decision by the leaders to hold talks in Britain is likely to increase tensions between the traditionalists and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who will this year step down amid criticism he has failed to heal divisions over sexuality.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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