“The Archbishop of Canterbury’s willingness to assert himself in local elections within the Episcopal Church while remaining silent about the egregious human rights violations supported by other churches in the Communion has diminished his own stature as a moral leader, and has now begun to taint the work of other bodies that claim to speak for the Anglican Communion,”
Updated: Does the dispersed nature of Anglicanism and its autonomy, its cultural connections and sensitivity, really wish to take on something that would be impossible – wide and unending talk before anything was done in a geographical area? This process may be Rowan Williams looking down a deep well and seeing his own face, but it is not Anglicanism in its decentralised nature.
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