LONDON, ENGLAND: More Anglican moral excesses are about to catch a wave
LONDON, ENGLAND: More Anglican moral excesses are about to catch a wave
by Michael Coren
http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/item/13727-more-anglican-moral-excesses-are-about-to-catch-a-wave
January 24, 2012
It's more tragedy than Trollope, but my golly the Church of England has unwittingly become a producer of contemporary folly. The latest episode concerns a controversial gay dean who has threatened to take the Church of England to court after he was blocked from becoming a bishop. There are lots of deans, canons, bishops and such like in the Anglican Communion. In this case, however, the Very Rev. Jeffrey John, dean of St. Albans, just north of London, is quite well-known.
The reason is that back in 2003 he was forced to step down as bishop of Reading by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, after it became known that he was in a long-term "civil partnership" with another man. The dean claimed that the two gay men were celibate, and everybody knows that a dean always tells the truth. As a friend of the fellow commented at the time, "there were a lot of tears." Now John has been rejected for the role of bishop of Southwark, a major diocese south of the River Thames, with its cathedral just yards away from where Shakespeare lived and had his plays performed.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Michael Coren
http://www.catholicregister.org/columns/item/13727-more-anglican-moral-excesses-are-about-to-catch-a-wave
January 24, 2012
It's more tragedy than Trollope, but my golly the Church of England has unwittingly become a producer of contemporary folly. The latest episode concerns a controversial gay dean who has threatened to take the Church of England to court after he was blocked from becoming a bishop. There are lots of deans, canons, bishops and such like in the Anglican Communion. In this case, however, the Very Rev. Jeffrey John, dean of St. Albans, just north of London, is quite well-known.The reason is that back in 2003 he was forced to step down as bishop of Reading by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, after it became known that he was in a long-term "civil partnership" with another man. The dean claimed that the two gay men were celibate, and everybody knows that a dean always tells the truth. As a friend of the fellow commented at the time, "there were a lot of tears." Now John has been rejected for the role of bishop of Southwark, a major diocese south of the River Thames, with its cathedral just yards away from where Shakespeare lived and had his plays performed.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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