Canadian Primate calls Decision to let TEC stay in Communion ‘encouraging’

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The Episcopal Church’s decision to proceed with the consecration broke one of three moratoria outlined in the Communion’s Windsor Report. The report requested a period of “gracious restraint” during which there provinces would not proceed with the ordination of gay or lesbian people as bishops, the blessing of same-sex unions, and cross-border interventions by bishops outside their own province. In June, Canon Kenneth Kearon, general secretary of the Anglican Communion, wrote to members of The Episcopal Church to inform them that as a result of the Los Angeles consecration, their membership on committees for ecumenical dialogue had been withdrawn.

But the standing committee did not go further in that direction. Commenting on the meeting’s results, Archbishop Hiltz, said, “For lots of people, it’s very encouraging because there was a lot of anxiety…,” said Archbishop Hiltz of the standing committee’s decision. “… It’s pretty clear, in spite of a request that the Episcopal Church be [asked] to leave, that that was one voice and everybody else said, ‘No, that’s not the way forward.’ ”

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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Consultative Council • Anglican Provinces • Anglican Church of Canada • Episcopal Church (TEC)

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Posted August 4, 2010 at 4:30 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. dwstroudmd wrote:

Naturally, it is always good to have the “big dog” protect you.  And it’s not just the abysmal AcCanada and TEc.  Canada has hid under the umbrella of the USA for all the Cold War, too.  You’d think they could be grateful, but, eh?

August 4, 5:49 pm | [comment link]
2. tjmcmahon wrote:

It’s pretty clear, in spite of a request that the Episcopal Church be [asked] to leave, that that was one voice

Yeah Fred, but that one voice was representing 45 million Anglicans.

Day ain’t over yet.

August 4, 6:10 pm | [comment link]
3. Cennydd13 wrote:

And the request will be repeated.

August 4, 6:46 pm | [comment link]
4. Larry Morse wrote:

Can you spell spineless” and “impotent?” Oh wait, I said that before.
Will anyone do anything that looks like action? Or shall we talk some more? Really? Well, let’s chat, because this is harmless and the “Anglican thing to do.”  L

August 4, 10:08 pm | [comment link]
5. Londoner wrote:

I wonder why so very few Canadians bother with the ACoC…......will the last person to leave please turn out the lights.

August 5, 3:41 am | [comment link]
6. MichaelA wrote:

Interesting spin by ++Hiltz. Liberal bloggers were purple with rage that the suggeston of expelling TEC had even been raised…

Well, the liberals clearly have a good hold on the Standing Committee of the ACC, at least for the moment. Much good may it do them. ++Hiltz has to cope with a more present reality - his own churches are shrinking and ACNA’s Canadian churches are growing. In the end, its grass-roots growth that makes the difference.

August 5, 4:00 am | [comment link]
7. Londoner wrote:

but Hiltz is right….the result was encouraging for revisionists…..as have been the last 7 years with the ABC always helping to keep them at the table and never allowing any meaningful discipline or consequences…...that plays into revisionist hands   (see good article from Dr Turner at the ACI, out this week)  Hiltz is right…...revisionists should be encouraged, they are gaining “an inch at a time”

August 6, 2:50 am | [comment link]
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