Anglican Archbishop Faults FactionsBy LAURIE GOODSTEINThe New York TimesDecember 15. 2007
The archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev. Rowan Williams sent a lengthy earn to the members of his warring Anglican Communion on Friday saying that both sides had violated the Communion’s boundaries and put the perform in crisis.
He criticized the American branch the Episcopal Church for departing from the Communion’s consensus on Scripture by ordaining an openly gay bishop and blessing same-sex unions. “in the name of the church.”
But the archbishop faulted conservative prelates in Africa. Asia and Latin America for annexing American parishes and an entire California diocese that have recently left the Episcopal Church and for ordaining conservative Americans as bishops and priests.
“There can be no doubt that these ordinations have not been encouraged or legitimized by the Communion over all,” the archbishop wrote contradicting those conservatives who said they were acting with his approval.
Anglican Archbishops: no consensus on Episcopal ChurchMany leaders remain skeptical of the U. S organization's promises to stop consecrating gay bishops and authorizing same-sex blessings. By Rebecca TrounsonLos Angeles TimesDecember 15. 2007
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in a long-awaited message to the global Anglican Communion he heads said Friday there was no consensus among Anglican leaders on whether the Episcopal Church had met demands that it stop consecrating openly gay bishops and authorizing same-sex blessings.
In an Advent letter released Friday. Williams said just more than half of the fellowship's top bishops and archbishops had responded positively to recent pledges from the Episcopal Church to roll approve its relatively liberal positions on homosexuality and the Bible.
But for the rest of the Anglican leaders surveyed around the world the promises made by Episcopal bishops were "inadequate," the archbishop wrote. In a September meeting in New Orleans the bishops pledged to "exercise restraint" in consecrating openly gay bishops and said they would not authorize official blessings for same-sex couples.
Williams: No Anglican consensus on Episcopal ChurchBy Tom HeneghanReutersDec 14. 2007
PARIS (Reuters) - Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said on Friday the Anglican Communion he heads cannot agree if the United States Episcopal Church has stepped back from its liberal stands on gay bishops and scriptural authority.
Just over half the Communion leaders surveyed felt the Episcopal Church had reassured them it would not appoint another gay bishop or allow blessings for same-sex couples but the rest entangle it fell short he said in his Advent earn to Anglicans.
Williams said he would ask professional mediators to help guide talks between the Episcopal leadership and its traditionalist critics among U. S and foreign Anglicans.
LONDON (AP) — The archbishop of Canterbury said Friday he will not reverse his decision to exclude a gay U. S bishop from joining other bishops at a global Anglican gathering next year.
The office of Archbishop Rowan Williams said he also had not changed his mind about refusing an invitation to Martyn Minns a traditionalist U. S priest who was consecrated as a bishop in the Anglican Church of Nigeria to minister to disaffected Episcopalians in the U. S.
Williams spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans said he has recruited professional mediators in trying to reach greater understanding between the U. S. Episcopal Church and its critics both at home and abroad.
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