SOUTH CAROLINA - SPECIAL DIGEST REPORT
SOUTH CAROLINA - SPECIAL DIGEST REPORT
Dear Brothers and Sisters
www.virtueonline.org
November 19, 2012
On October 15, 2012, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori notified South Carolina Bishop Mark Lawrence that he had openly renounced the discipline of the church and was guilty of "abandonment of communion" by actions he took in 2010 and 2011. She used the abandonment canon to justify the most severe body blow a Presiding Bishop can deliver to any bishop. He was inhibited from any further ecclesiastical action unless he canonically repented.
That was not going to happen. It was and is Bishop Lawrence's contention that the Episcopal Church had abandoned the faith over sexuality issues (he and his contingent walked out of General Convention over gay rites) and that he would resist those changes by leaving convention, but not the Episcopal Church organization.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Dear Brothers and Sisters
www.virtueonline.org
November 19, 2012
On October 15, 2012, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori notified South Carolina Bishop Mark Lawrence that he had openly renounced the discipline of the church and was guilty of "abandonment of communion" by actions he took in 2010 and 2011. She used the abandonment canon to justify the most severe body blow a Presiding Bishop can deliver to any bishop. He was inhibited from any further ecclesiastical action unless he canonically repented.
That was not going to happen. It was and is Bishop Lawrence's contention that the Episcopal Church had abandoned the faith over sexuality issues (he and his contingent walked out of General Convention over gay rites) and that he would resist those changes by leaving convention, but not the Episcopal Church organization.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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