SC Unfolding Train Wreck for TEC
Dear Brothers and Sisters
www.virtueonline.org
October 10, 2011
The news is coming in so fast that I felt it necessary to send you all a digest today in order not to overload VOL's readers with too much by the end of the week.
The big news, of course, is the unfolding drama in the Diocese of South Carolina.
By all accounts, The Episcopal Church has overplayed its hand even though we all knew that, sooner or later, the national church or its surrogates would move against Bishop Mark Lawrence to take him down. "Serious charges" that Lawrence has abandoned The Episcopal Church and that he is subject to discipline under Title IV of the canons of The Episcopal Church are so absurd as to be laughable.
The national church might have bitten off more than it can chew this time. They hope the laity will go along with whatever it does with its leaders, but they are wrong. This IS the very orthodox Diocese of South Carolina where the clergy and laity got a large dose of the national church when they went after some properties and found that the "sovereign" rights of the diocese trumped the Dennis Canon. They are prepared.
www.virtueonline.org
October 10, 2011
The news is coming in so fast that I felt it necessary to send you all a digest today in order not to overload VOL's readers with too much by the end of the week.
The big news, of course, is the unfolding drama in the Diocese of South Carolina.
By all accounts, The Episcopal Church has overplayed its hand even though we all knew that, sooner or later, the national church or its surrogates would move against Bishop Mark Lawrence to take him down. "Serious charges" that Lawrence has abandoned The Episcopal Church and that he is subject to discipline under Title IV of the canons of The Episcopal Church are so absurd as to be laughable.
The national church might have bitten off more than it can chew this time. They hope the laity will go along with whatever it does with its leaders, but they are wrong. This IS the very orthodox Diocese of South Carolina where the clergy and laity got a large dose of the national church when they went after some properties and found that the "sovereign" rights of the diocese trumped the Dennis Canon. They are prepared.
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