Posted on 04/30/2005 9:11:04 AM PDT by sionnsar
This interview of the Bishop of Pittsburgh in The Living Church is, maybe, a hint of how things will go. The Rebel Alliance seems to want to make it clear that it's ECUSA that's leaving the Anglican Communion, not the Rebel Allliance leaving ECUSA. The letter to Rowan Willliams is especially interesting for it's signatories. Some of the bishops are well known for their orthodoxy, but have been unwilling to join the Network or to give up on keeping ECUSA afloat. It looks like the last House of Bishops meeting was a bit polarizing. I'm not as sanguine as Bishop Duncan appears to be about the legal effects of a possible booting of ECUSA by the Anglican Communion; in the very first place, the Anglican Communion isn't very well defined constitutionally, and in the second American civil courts are unlikely to give a hoot about what Rowan Williams or Peter Akinola thinks. In property matters, courts are interested in precedent and orderliness. It's more interesting that the number of bishes getting ready to make a break for it is growing.
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams.
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