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Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has traveled the world denouncing apartheid, South Africa's system of official discrimination against blacks. But last week the black clergyman took aim at a different target: human rights abuses in black-ruled African countries. "It is sad that South Africa is noted for its vicious violations of human rights," Tutu told a Nairobi press conference at a meeting of the All Africa Conference of Churches. "But it is also very sad to note that there is less freedom in some independent African countries than there was in the much maligned colonial...
...latest author did just that, launching an unprecedented attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert A.K. Runcie, since 1980 Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 65 million-member Anglican Communion (including U.S. Episcopalians). The Archbishop, a decorated tank commander in World War II who earned the name "Killer Runcie," was characterized in Crockford's as a spineless churchman who evinces no "clear basis for his policies other than taking the line of least resistance on each issue...
...Runcie were yoked in condemnation by Crockford's. In fact, the essay was seen as a bid to derail the liberal Habgood, 60, as a successor to Runcie, 66, who many expect will vacate the see of Canterbury after presiding over a meeting of the world's Anglican bishops next summer. The essay was viewed as a conservative vote of no confidence to press Runcie into stepping down...
...tragedy and accompanying speculation obscured much of the reason the essay had hit such a raw nerve. Traditionalists now constitute a surly minority among England's ranking churchmen, and their complaints are echoed by many within the dwindling ranks of Anglican churchgoers. The Church of England, as the Times observed in a lead editorial, is a "declining institution" that has become "uncertain about its public purpose and divided over its internal beliefs...
...intent of the leftward drift was to refill England's empty naves, the strategy has been an abysmal failure. When Runcie became primate, a paltry 2.7% of the population regularly attended Anglican services; slightly fewer do so today. Bennett's mistake was not in raising such unpleasant matters in public, with or without his name attached. It was in assuming that an Archbishop of Canterbury -- or any other individual -- could, merely by standing firm, reverse the powerful tide of change that has caused such anguishing problems for the Church of England...