Tag: Anglican Communion

Bishop Pierre Whalon corrects some flawed logic invoked at GAFCON about non-geographical jurisdictions, given his experience overseeing the Convocation of American Churches in Europe, and points out the flaw in trying to use the convocation as a model/precedent/justification for CANA. The Convocation of American Churches in Europe ministers to expatriates, people working or stationed abroad, and immigrants to Europe.

Following a press conference at which he refused to condemn violence against gays “Akinola, previously described as a luminary of the conservative movement, has now been hidden away until Sunday afternoon, when a statement outlining a skeleton structure for a “flying communion” has been issued and, handily, when most of the press will have left Jerusalem altogether.”

In a campaign comment ahead of today’s uncontested election in Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe has condemned Archbishop Rowan Williams as lacking a “moral compass” and said that gays in the church are a sign of “moral degeneracy”.

The Church Times is among those reporting that GAFCON may create some new structure. What kind of structure remains to be seen, as does how

The Dallas Morning News says: If Time is right, the war of words over the role of gays in the Anglican Communion will continue ad nauseum — with nothing, really, being decided as a result.

TIME: The secession it threatened to bring to the 78 million-member Anglican Communion looks like a confused bust. This all comes as a bit of surprise to the press, which — with ample encouragement from the Church’s right — had been framing GAFcon as a decisive step toward schism….GAFcon seems to be falling apart on several fronts.

There are two. Brothers, Peter and Phillip. Together they form the backbone of agressive low church conservatism in the diocese of Sydney.