The issues of female ordination and homosexual clergy are causing significant divisions within the Anglican church. A vivid example of why we need to resist the dissenter groups (Voice of the 'Faithful' , Call to Action, Catholics in Alliance) that are trying to do the same in the Catholic ChurchArchbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, head cleric in the Church of England, has responded to the Episcopal Church’s decision to allow the ordination of homosexual bishops. Saying that a change in Anglican teaching, if necessary, would require broader agreement, he proposed a “two-track” church structure which recognizes “two ways of being Anglican.”
On July 14, the Episcopal Church’s General Convention voted to approve homosexual bishops. It was seen as a rejection of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s and the Anglican Communion’s call for a moratorium on the practice.
Writing in a July 27 document titled “Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future,” Archbishop Williams said the wording of the resolution showed that it did not want to “cut its moorings from other parts of the Anglican family.” The two most controversial resolutions, he said, do not have the “automatic effect” of overturning the moratoria on homosexual clergy.
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An Anglican cathedral is trying to accommodate those of its faithful who do not accept female clergy by allowing parishioners to decide whether to accept communion bread blessed by its female canon or by a male priest. Blackburn Cathedral in Lancashire recently installed Rev. Sue Penfold as a residential canon. Cathedral canon Andrew Hindley explained the decision to This Is Lancashire, saying it was agreed by all the clergy that it was the best way to handle what they called a “mixed economy.”
The congregation can choose whether to receive communion bread blessed by Rev. Penfold or bread blessed by a male priest at the main cathedral service on Sundays at 10:30 a.m.
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I am and ex-Anglican/Episcopalian that converted to Roman Catholicism 3 years ago. Rowan Williams and Katherine Jefforts Schori are !@#$*&^ nuts. Between the Gene Robinson and and Williams stance on Sharia law and Islam in England, I found myself saying why am I here? It was appalling. I considered myself an Anglican Catholic, or a participant in The Anglican Rite of the Catholic Church which some date as far back as 200 A.D. I am digressing here, but Williams is destroying a Church that was very simpatico with the RC Church and I had hoped some day would rejoin. JMO.
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