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...February 2002. His church, a parish of the nation-wide Anglican Province of Christ the King, includes a substantial number of Harvard students and faculty and meets in the Swedenborg Chapel, right in the middle of campus. In April of that year, Woodruff received a letter back from Dennis Sheehan, the chair of the UM’s membership committee, detailing concerns the UM had about the ACOI’s relationship with mainline Episcopalians: “We [the UM] are puzzled by the designation ‘Anglican’ and wonder if your Province is, in fact...
...evidently, neither Monseigneur Sheehan nor anyone on the UM’s membership committee consulted The Encyclopedia of American Religions, one of the official reference books listed in the UM’s bylaws. This book—and indeed even a cursory Google search—would have explained that Province churches were actually not Anglican but Episcopalian. The sect split from mainstream Episcopalians in the late-1970s (with the Province churches retaining a more orthodox doctrine). With different dioceses, liturgies and increasingly different theologies, Province churches cater to a completely different crowd of worshippers...
...irregularities in the UM’s response to Father Woodruff are difficult to explain. Woodruff claims to have addressed the denominational issues raised by Sheehan in his original application. Still, he offered to meet with UM representatives to explain further at a meeting in April 2002. Afterwards, Woodruff expected to hear the UM’s decision by May, as prescribed in the UM’s bylaws...
These inconsistencies notwithstanding—former chair Sheehan never mentioned any apprehension about the receiving body and thus McLeod’s concerns about the receiving body came as an unexpected new concern—the UM’s lack of meaningful communication with Father Woodruff has undermined the ACOI’s chances to gain UM membership for two years. And the UM’s shifting reasons for denying the ACOI membership have confused and disillusioned Father Woodruff. For an organization founded to promote a diversity of religions on campus, the UM has not shown even...
...soon gain UM membership. However, in the same e-mail, he wrote, “I doubt that the Anglican issue will keep Rev. Woodruff from being admitted to the UM”—referring to the denominational issue that has plagued the ACOI. Considering that Msgr. Sheehan cited that concern and only that concern in the UM’s very first letter to the ACOI back in April 2002, it is maddening that this small issue—which has finally been deemed irrelevent and rightly so—kept the Province...