It has been the consistent position of ACI, going back to 'To Mend the Net,' that the specific authority given to the Archbishop of Canterbury is that of gathering and inviting. And the place where that authority is his alone is the Lambeth Conference invitations.
But there is no evidence whatsoever that in making invitations for the 2008 Conference, +Canterbury has set aside or ignored the authority of the other Instruments.
Read moreRobinson is upset, and so are some of his fellow Episcopal clerics. So what if the guy is violating one of the central tenets of Christian teaching? The attitude seems to be: since when is orthodoxy a big deal among Episcopalians?
Read moreWe are producing a DVD with highlights of the service and will be making it available to you but until then there are a number of websites with short video clips of the service.
As a wonderful sequel to the service Bishop David Bena and Richard Crocker met this past weekend with twenty prospective candidates for ordination. All of them were eager to step forward and present themselves for service in Christs church. The future for CANA is very bright.
Read moreThe elite victim class is circling its wagons around Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire, who lives in a partnered homosexual relationship. It was announced yesterday that the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, did not include Robinson in the first batch of invitations to the Lambeth Conference scheduled for the summer of 2008.
Read moreLet me explain, with respect to the latter point.
Read moreAs one example of the financial crisis brought on by the majority of bishops endorsing sodomy, the Episcopal cathedral in the Diocese of Western Michigan, built in 1969, had to be sold to a new and biblically faithful non-Episcopal local church.
Did the national Episcopal Church headquarters in Manhattan devote any of its income or trust funds to try to help avoid the loss of this cathedral in Michigan?
Read moreQ: How can a non-Christian react to God's calling?
Read moreI have known Dawkins for more than 20 years; we are both Oxford professors. I believe if anyone is "immune to argument" it is him. He comes across as a dogmatic, aggressive propagandist.
Read moreThey also said that they would create a "Pastoral Council" that would work with a "Primatial Vicar" to provide pastoral oversight for those congregations who cannot accept the ministry of their Bishops and those Dioceses that cannot accept the ministry of the Presiding Bishop.
Read moreThe American presiding bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, condemned this poaching of souls on her turf as a violation of the "ancient customs of the church." To which the archbishop replied, in essence: Since when have you American liberals given a fig about the ancient customs of the church?
Such conflicts used to be decided in the Church of England by the king putting someone in the Tower of London. That does not appear to be an option in this case.
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