Day: February 7, 2010

The legislation that the Revision Committee sends back to the Synod will, therefore, be on the basis that any arrangements that are made for parishes with conscientious difficulties about women’s ordination will be by way of delegation from the diocesan bishops. Our aim is to issue the revised draft legislation so that Synod members have several weeks to consider it before July. – The Bishop of Manchester

John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, tells BBC “Sunday Sequence” host William Crawley that while the Vatican’s offer to Anglicans would make them subject to Ordinariates, they still wouldn’t be thoroughgoing Catholics.