A few are beginning to ask, is it ethical to walk away from an underwater mortgage? The Church of England and its partners in a massive New York City real estate deal gone sour just did.
“What would really happen when serious disagreements arise among churches of the Anglican Communion?”
The Archbishop of Canterbury has given a message of support to the people of Haiti affected by the devastation caused by Tuesday’s earthquake.
The Queen once said she had an “annus horribilis.” So what would the ABC call the “noughties?” “La Década Perdida?”
It was not going to be a constitution, “and it’s certainly not going to be a penal code for punishing people who don’t comply.”
Doesn’t it just look like a Politburo! Democratic centralism is a means by which one layer of a party (which is infused into a bureaucracy) elects the next layer up, but we all know how that conserves a system. It also hands out edicts, from the top down.
In England, painful realities and invidious distinctions cast a long shadow over the oncoming Christmas holiday.
All he wants this holiday is a happier Archbishop of Canterbury — one who takes stock of a progressive Church without it spoiling his tea.
While I dislike the Covenant as both document and enterprise, I still think the Episcopalians need to answer some hard questions before committing themselves to opposition. I can think of two off the top of my head, and hope commenters will suggest others.
“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,”