[BelegStrongbow]

Dear AAM: We in APCK have our own Apostolic pastoral care, quite canonically consecrated and fully capable of providing every specie of pastoral and sacramental care for our parishioners. We look to the Southern Cone to have the good sense to observe our orthodoxy and ackowledge it.

Of course, to the extent that Southern Cone and African communions also allow the ordination of women, we could not consider them adequately orthodox.

In Christ,
Deacon Paul+

[AnAmericanMother]

Early in our search for a new church home, right after the infamous General Convention, I telephoned one of those churches (a very large one by the way) and asked which bishop the church had placed itself under. "Oh we don't answer to any bishop," was the response of the rector's secretary. I couldn't think of anything to ask except, "Well, who confirms the kids then?" and she said, "oh, the rector does it himself." !!??!!??

As it turns out, that church has now abandoned the Prayer Book and the liturgy and is basically a preach-and-praise evangelical mega-church.