The Rev. Dr. Dennis Paris has been one of his main targets since the priest who is also a university professor and author, wrote a book condemning the Episcopal Church's position on homosexuality and was tossed out of the church by the bishop.

Paris wrote to VirtueOnline and said the bishop was ratcheting up the pain by doing everything he could to see that the formation of a new AMIA parish on the island would not get off the ground.

If I have heard this cry once I have heard it on the phone numerous times and I read the anguished notes to me daily in my e-mails. Dozens of rectors are agonizing over their situations. Some have very large churches. Many of them are also under pressure from their wives. Their wives will not have their children brought up in a church that blesses sodomy they tell me.

The event was to officially kickoff the Anglican Relief and Development (ARD) fund a new agency formed to channel giving from Anglican donors in the U.S. to Anglican churches in the economically poorer countries of the Anglican Communion.

"I believe when we meet we will define our faith in clear terms and around that definition we will either agree or disagree. If it is faith in the living Lord Jesus Christ and the expression of that faith is around repentance and faith we will welcome it. We will have a reasoned debate about where our faith stands and then we will decide how to proceed."