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I’ve said before that the Anglican Church needs to get itself organised. Compared to the Catholic Church, whose tenets are virtually set in stone, the Church of England seems to have been in a muddle for many years with various groups agonising over homosexuality, women priests, women bishops, etc., etc.
Recent elections to the Anglican General Synod seem to have strengthened the grip of the traditionalists who oppose women bishops. Whether they will be able to block plans to consecrate women bishops and slow down the move in some quarters to convert to Catholicism remains to be seen.
Last October, Pope Benedict offered a place in the Roman Catholic Church for Anglicans opposed to women bishops that would let them retain some of their practices and traditions. So far, four Anglican bishops have taken up the offer, and recently an entire Anglican congregation in Kent became the first to convert en bloc.
It will be interesting to see how things develop.
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I’ve said before that the Anglican Church needs to get itself organised. Compared to the Catholic Church, whose tenets are virtually set in stone, the Church of England seems to have been in a muddle for many years with various groups agonising over homosexuality, women priests, women bishops, etc., etc.
Recent elections to the Anglican General Synod seem to have strengthened the grip of the traditionalists who oppose women bishops. Whether they will be able to block plans to consecrate women bishops and slow down the move in some quarters to convert to Catholicism remains to be seen.
Last October, Pope Benedict offered a place in the Roman Catholic Church for Anglicans opposed to women bishops that would let them retain some of their practices and traditions. So far, four Anglican bishops have taken up the offer, and recently an entire Anglican congregation in Kent became the first to convert en bloc.
It will be interesting to see how things develop.
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