[pharmamom]

This was excellent, sionnsar. It sounds as though Bishop Wright is falling prey to the multi-cultural PC movement. "We can't judge right and wrong..." Isn't that what Scripture and Tradition are there fore?

[Kolokotronis]

"This was excellent, sionnsar. It sounds as though Bishop Wright is falling prey to the multi-cultural PC movement. "We can't judge right and wrong..." Isn't that what Scripture and Tradition are there fore?"

I remember when Bishop Wright first made his comments I thought to myself that the Council of Nicea never held anything like what he was saying. But I looked it up anyway and then re read some history. And sure enough, the Nicene situation wasn't anything like what the AC is facing today and simply can't be compared to it. Bishop Wright's refusal to uphold the 2100 year old teaching of the Church that it is the role and function of a bishop to make precisely the distinctions which he refuses to make, namely to proclaim that which is what the Church always and everywhere has believed and that which is not, speaks volumes about the collapse of "orthodox" Christianity among the hierarchs of the Anglican Communion, even, apparently, the "conservative" ones.

Sionnsar, where does this idea that schism is worse than heresy come from? Is this an ancient idea? Is it uniquely Anglican? I do know that after 1453, The Church in the East proclaimed "Better the Sultan's turban than the Pope's mitre", or words to that effect, so it doesn't sound Orthodox to me, but as always I am ready to be corrected! :)