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...Archbishop cannot talk the American church out of a done deal, but he may be able to broker a peace plan. Anglicans officially declared homosexuality to be "incompatible with Scripture" at their most recent Lambeth Conference--a once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican bishops--in 1998. Still, dioceses have traditionally been granted generous latitude in deciding their local practices. Archbishop Williams announced last Friday an emergency meeting of the 38 primates from around the world to consider the actions of the U.S. church. "I hope," he said in an official statement, "we will find that there...
...delicate task of keeping peace within the worldwide communion will fall to its spiritual leader, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Though the Archbishop does not have the authority of a Pope, he is primus inter pares. Williams narrowly evaded a rift over a gay but celibate bishop on his home turf in July, when that bishop-appointee, after meeting with the Archbishop for six hours, declined the office, citing concerns about church unity...
...dare say, we of the church in the United States could not have imagined just how important this gesture of asking forgiveness would be for us." THE REV. SEAN P. O'MALLEY, in a homily during his installation as Archbishop of Boston, on repentance for widespread sexual abuse among priests...
...Taylor's not a man who can sit quietly," says the Archbishop of Monrovia, Michael Kpakala Francis. "He will try to destabilize whatever government is sitting here." Taylor's support of armed rebellions in nearby countries has turned his neighbors against him, too. Nigeria has gone out on a limb to offer him asylum, and a rejection would earn its enmity. His resignation strips him of presidential immunity, and leaves him vulnerable to arrest by Liberian authorities. Taylor's aides have been calling for his indictment to be lifted before he leaves the country, gambling that a little ambiguity over...
...theological orthodoxy. There's no question of that. There's really no impediment. Except there is already a province of the United States and of Canada. In the Anglican world, traditionally every country can have its own franchise, its own identity and have as its leader the highest archbishop, called the primate. We do not want to leave the church. We are looking for a new province because in this case the United States and Canada have done such irresponsible actions with regard to the orthodoxy of the Anglican church globally. The communion is tired of American unilateralism. They tell...