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The long-awaited Windsort Report, the result of the year-long Eames Commission study on "unity" within the Anglican Communion after the Episcopal Church (USA) ordained an openly-gay, non-celibate bishop, has be released. From the Windsor Report: 134. Mindful of the hurt and offence that have resulted from recent events [ordination of Gene Robinson], and yet also of the imperatives of communion - the repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation enjoined on us by Christ - we have debated long and hard how all sides may be brought together. We recommend that: the Episcopal Church (USA) be invited to express its regret that the...

Robinson appointment 'invalid' Number: 5722 Date: June 17, The consecration of the Anglican Church’s first openly gay bishop could be annulled in a bid to save the Communion from splitting over the homosexuality issue. A paper has been presented to the Eames Commission, charged with solving the crisis, which argues that the consecration was invalid and that Gene Robinson cannot be regarded as a bishop. At this week’s critical meeting of the Eames Commission in South Carolina, one of its members, Archbishop Drexel Gomez, presented the document as a possible solution to the row that has engulfed the Communion. It...