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Just in case you missed it . . . A Statement by the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion on the Windsor ReportFr Geoffrey Kirk examines what the Windsor Report says about the ordination of womenFrom the November New Directions: Who’s Sorry Now? John Richardson on an apology for a report From the November New Directions: Fr. Michael Heidt: Never mind the truth, here’s the Windsor Report

Liberals have warned that the Church of England would break into "civil war" if the American Church is disciplined for its consecration of the Anglican Communion's first active homosexual bishop. There could be mass resignations amongst clergy who are sympathetic to the action taken by the Episcopal Church of the USA (ECUSA), according to the Dean of Southwark, the Rt Rev Colin Slee. He said that recommendations from the Eames Commission that propose the exclusion of bishops supportive of Canon Gene Robinson's consecration from future Anglican summits would be devastating for the unity of the Communion Church of England. "There...

Anglicans to shun gay-row bishops By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 03/09/2004) Liberal American bishops face having their invitations to Anglican summits withdrawn by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, if they continue to defy the worldwide Church over homosexuality. Under tough proposals likely to be recommended by the Lambeth Commission next month, the liberal leadership of the American Episcopal Church could be excluded from policy making and shunned by the vast majority of Anglicans. Bishops who publicly support the consecration of Canon Gene Robinson as Anglicanism's first actively gay bishop last year or who authorise gay "marriages", both...

Anglican leaders' summit for Ulster By Alf McCreary A major international conference of world leaders of the Anglican Church under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is scheduled to meet in Northern Ireland next February. The Belfast Telegraph has learned that primates from all 38 provinces of the Communion will meet in Newcastle, Co Down, to make crucial decisions on the future of the worldwide Church following the report of the Anglican Commission on the divisions caused over sexual issues within Anglicanism. The historic Primates Meeting in Newcastle is likely to be one of the most...

AFRICANS WILL LEAVE ANGLICAN COMMUNION SAYS CHURCH SOCIETY LEADER By David W. Virtue Come October the Africans will leave the Anglican Communion following the conclusion of the Lambeth-Eames Commission, because they think the report will be little more than a "fudge", says David Phillips, General Secretary, Church Society. Writing in Anglican Mainstream, the online voice of orthodoxy in the Church of England, Phillips said, "There is no doubt that the Africans in particular do not really understand the western church. They do not understand they way it plays politics in bodies such as the General Synod or the Primates meetings....

Tensions hit Eames Commission Number: 5725 Date: July 8, In the wake of claims that the Eames Commission has excluded the voices of gays and lesbians from its deliberations [CEN June 27] comes new word that internal tensions centering round its Steering Committee and staff may divide the Commission. Some members object to a perceived pursuit by the Commission’s Steering Committee of “enlightened expediency” at the expense of truth. Non-Western members of the Commission are troubled that the steering committee has privileged a European worldview that allows canon law to trump doctrine. Some Commission members are also concerned that the...

ACNS 3850 | ACO | 7 JULY 2004 Interview with Most Revd Robin Eames on the work of the Lambeth Commission In recent weeks, ACNS has received a large number of queries about the progress of the Lambeth Commission on Communion (LCC). ACNS managed to catch up with the Chair of the Commission, the Most Revd Robin Eames, as he passed through St Andrew’s House this week. He agreed to give some personal reflections on the work of the Commission, given that it is impossible for him or the Secretary of the Commission to respond to the large number of...

ANGLICAN COMMUNION MOVES TOWARDS PRECIPICE News Analysis By David W. Virtue A leak from the Lambeth Commission this week suggests that the Anglican Communion must face the inevitability of a formal split because it cannot agree on the rightness or wrongness of homosexual behavior by segments of the Communion, and the fulfillment of the latter in the consecration of an avowed homosexual to the American episcopacy. The unidentified source told Ruth Gledhill of the TIMES that a proposal was on the table to turn the Anglican Communion into an Anglican confederation. What apparently is now on the table is a...

Gay row distorts Bible, says Williams By Ruth Gledhill Archbishop tells commission that Church must draw limits THE Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised fundamentalists and extremists on both sides of the Anglican Church for distorting the message of the Bible in the debate over homosexuality. Rowan Williams told members of the Lambeth Commission on homosexuality that a church “faithful to the biblical revelation has to exercise discipline and draw boundaries if it is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus and not its own concerns”. Dr Williams said the problem was not simply about “biblical faithfulness versus fashionable relativism”. He said...

Eames Commission may miss deadline Unprecedented challenges face the Eames Commission, said the Archbishop of Canterbury at the opening of General Synod in central London. On the outskirts of London the Commission set up to help the Anglican Communion either stay together or separate amicably in the wake of the consecration of a gay bishop was also beginning its work. An insider on the Commission, chaired by Archbishop Robin Eames, recently told The Church of England Newspaper that the scale of the task was huge and it was unlikely that a report could be issued by the September deadline set...

EAMES' VISION FOR COMMISSION SEES "REALISTIC" APPROACH, "NEW WAYS" FOR ANGLICANISM By Auburn Faber Traycik The Christian Challenge (Washington, DC) February 2, 2004 THE HEAD of a new commission charged with helping the Anglican Communion handle the fallout from its current crisis over homosexuality believes the way forward will involve some "realistic," "practical" recommendations, and "a degree of agreement to at least try new ways of doing things." He also predicted that the panel will consider the issue of "discipline." Those were just a few tantalizing hints that Irish Primate Robin Eames offered during a U.S. visit this weekend about...

EAMES COMMISSION AIMS AT RESOLVING SEXUALITY ISSUES Who's Who in the Commission? News Analysis By David W. Virtue Irish Archbishop Robin Eames will chair a 17-member commission, at the request of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to look at the legal and theological implications arising from recent innovations in some Western provinces regarding human sexuality. The members have been appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Commission is expected to begin its work early in the New Year. The commission will focus its attention on the decision of the Diocese of New Westminster to authorize a service...