The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned of the "piece-by-piece dissolution" of the influence of the Anglican Church around the world.Leader of the Church of England Rowan Williams
... sometimes known as the Archdruid of Canterbury, an indifferent theologian and a poor communicator, so obtuse as to occasionally be mistaken for brilliant but chock full of bland New Agey Feel-Goodisms ...
told the meeting of the bigwigs governing the Anglican Church in England, the General Synod, that all church factions should end their disputes and agree on a common framework to ensure that the 70-million-strong Anglican Communion in Britain and other countries remain united.
That framework's kinda been the sticking point, hasn't it? They've got lady bishops and homosexual clergy who don't feel any impulse toward celibacy, and they had at least one "theologian" who didn't even believe in God. Unitarians are pointing the finger at them and criticizing the mushiness of their doctrine.
Members of the synod are to vote on Wednesday on the Anglican covenant amid fears that some priests, who are opposed to the ordination of women bishops, may even defect to Roman Catholicism.
What the hell? Why not? They don't even have to learn Latin anymore.
All 38 formerly autonomous members of the Anglican Communion around the world should approve the covenant for the church to survive its differences.
Figure the odds on 38 people agreeing on much of anything.
The covenant was set up following the US Episcopal Church's move to endorse an openly homosexual priest as the bishop of New Hampshire.
He just couldn 't pretend to be a "bachelor." He hadda flaunt it. Discretion is so Old Age.
Now with the new divisions forcing the autonomous provinces of the communion to act to keep the church uniform, critics say the covenant will weaken the position of the Church of England as the originator of the international communion.
Mush didn't present a very solid foundation, does it?
Yet Williams informed the synod that going on without a few changes is an "illusion" and still a "greater illusion" to believe British priests can impose their ideas on the other provinces of the Anglican Church around the world.
Williams added no one can "derail the entire process" of the adoption of the covenant, which is deemed a yardstick by opponents, to determine who belongs and who does not belong to the church.
"The unpalatable fact is that certain decisions in any province affect all," he said. "If we ignore this, we ignore what is already a real danger, the piece-by-piece dissolution of the communion and the emergence of structures in which relation to the Church of England and the See of Canterbury are likely not to figure very significantly," he added suggesting fears that Britain could lose its authority over the Anglican Church.
Endorsing the covenant will define whether a province belongs to the Anglican Church and commits the members to refrain from any decision before gaining approval by other members.
