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...financial pressure," and are tired of being treated by church liberals as if they were "brain-dead." Mead and 1,800 like-thinking Episcopalians retaliated earlier this month during a three-day meeting in Fort Worth, where they formed an independent church-within-a-church called the Episcopal Synod of America. It is likely to bedevil the Episcopal Church for years to come...
...dissidents, who refuse to recognize women priests, decided to act after the February consecration of Boston's Barbara Harris as the first woman Episcopal bishop. Synod members decry the church's liberalized teachings on such matters as divorce, abortion and homosexuality. They also insist that parishes be allowed to use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer instead of the modernized worship forms that the church approved in 1979. But unlike the small factions of tradition-minded members who walked out of the Episcopal Church in the late 1970s, the Synod stops short of making a dramatic split with the Episcopal...
...membership. "We must remain within the church to transform it," vows dissident Bishop David Schofield of Fresno, Calif. If separation is forced upon the flock, he states, "we will take the path when it comes." Says Bishop Clarence Pope of Fort Worth, who was elected president of the new Synod: "We are moving one step at a time to test the waters...
Pope, Schofield and four other bishops who now head regular Episcopal dioceses will also be the leaders of six Synod "areas" across the U.S. Fireworks are likely to start if, without approval, one of these six Synod bishops moves into a liberal diocese to perform rites for a traditionalist parish. Such a radical step, some believe, would break canon law and constitute a schism. Getting right down to basics, a spokesman for the diocese of southeast Florida contends that if and when a parting of the ways occurs, there will be serious legal and financial opposition to the schismatics, with...
Memorial Day weekend was scheduled to be the Bush campaign's holy synod, a meeting of all the chosen at Kennebunkport, Me. Things were not going well; Dukakis had a 10-to-12-point lead. Dukakis was gaining stature by beating Jackson week after week, Bush seemed like a gawky figure on the sidelines. Bush was still campaigning on the Reagan agenda. He felt an inability to assert himself until the convention, when the torch would pass from Reagan...