Day: August 11, 2009

Dangerous Durham

The Bishop of Durham wants to short-circuit the Archbishop’s timetable. He wants a decision about who is in and out of the Communion to be made NOW, not postponed until the end of 2009 when Section 4 of the Covenant is finalised (para 19).

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Rethinking General Convention I

The group’s only agenda item that surprised me was the inference that a conspiracy of bishops guides what is happening in the Episcopal Church. Anyone familiar with the Episcopal Church’s governance knows no human conspiracy could secretly manipulate such a convoluted system.

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Celestial fire

St. Francis himself passed through a period of despair lasting two years. One of his biographers, Father Isidore O’Brien, attributed this to the fear that his rule of poverty would be modified, to his disillusionment over the gross behaviour of many of the Crusaders, and to his increasing physical blindness.

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