If the Anglican Communion decides to take on an international identity rather than being a family of independent national churches, then there’s an implication that not many people have recognized.
‘It all goes to show what a silly boy I was to be properly courteous to the ABC and ask permission in the first place! But I can also say that my definition that an ‘Episcopal Act’ is consecrating, ordaining, confirming might have been a wiser course of action.”
Canterbury, please know that western people are rejecting Christianity because–as noted in a recent survey of young Americans–Christians are “out of touch with reality.” Being worried about ecclesiastical millinery while Rome burns certainly counts as being out of touch with reality.
Lambeth Palace are investigating the way the leader of The Episcopal Church was treated in Britain this week. The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts Schori has described as “nonsense” and “bizarre” the edict from the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Ordinarily it would not be news that in 2006 the Most Rev. Frank Griswold, then presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church USA wore his mitre at Southward Cathedral. But these are not ordinary times. In 2010 the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori was told by Lambath Palace not to cover her hair at Southwark.
The way of the Church has been that of Caiaphas rather than Christ. The word Establishment suggests inevitably, and particularly in the setting of Westminster Abbey, the constitutional position of the Church of England and such a position is clearly incompatible with post-Constantinian realities and is widely recognized as being so. – Donald MacKinnon, Scottish Episcopalian and one time teacher of Rowan Williams.
But close observers would have seen there was something missing: no mitre on her head. Who could be responsible? Step forward, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, … who couldn’t stop her preaching but said she could not wear the symbol of her office, or carry a bishop’s crosier.
The Archbishop of Canterbury addressed the new Parliament emphasizing the dignity of all persons and the need of those in power to protect it. Which seems odd considering who has been banished from certain councils of the Anglican Communion and why.
In excluding members of the Episcopal Church from Anglican bodies engaged in ecumenical dialog Rowan Williams was no doubt trying to send a message to…
These talking points from the Episcopal Church’s Office of Public Affairs have been in the works for a few weeks. They are the latest in