The Church of England paved the way on Thursday for a final vote on women bishops to go ahead in July, but supporters angry at last-minute concessions to traditionalists who favour an all-male clergy immediately threatened to scupper it.
After more than a decade of bitter wrangling, traditionalists and liberals appeared no closer to finding a workable blueprint this week with the opposing sides predicting future chaos or departures from the Anglican mother church.
Read it all and there are a lot of other stories there as well.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Provinces • Church of England (CoE) • CoE Bishops • * Culture-Watch • Women
Posted May 25, 2012 at 7:58 am
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2. Ad Orientem wrote:
Because the pretend bishops couldn’t stand the idea of some people not playing along. May 25, 2:07 pm | [comment link] |
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3. Pageantmaster [KJS to Coventry] wrote:
Archbishops’ clarification - if that is not an oxymoron. Some days I sit and think. Other days I just sit!! May 25, 7:55 pm | [comment link] |
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4. MichaelA wrote:
A very few. And none of those provinces are doing well in terms of growth, or even maintaining their current numbers and funds. May 27, 7:34 pm | [comment link] |
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For the life of me, I don’t understand why they couldn’t just continue the Flying Bishops scheme. Most Anglo-catholics I know in the C of E were perfectly willing to continue with that, if under duress. Let sleeping dogs lie.
May 25, 1:37 pm | [comment link]