Common Cause wants to be Gafcon Province: CEN 7.25.08

Common Cause wants to be Gafcon Province: CEN 7.25.08 July 26, 2008

Posted by geoconger in Church of England Newspaper, GAFCON, Lambeth 2008.
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London: The Common Cause Partnership in North American has petitioned the Primates Council of the Gafcon movement for recognition as an Anglican province in North America.

While not unexpected in light of the declarations of the Gafcon meeting in Jerusalem, the announcement released at the same time the bishops were seated for luncheon at Lambeth Palace before the garden party at Buckingham Palace with the Queen on July 24, symbolizes the challenge posed to the old order by the former colonial churches.

While Dr Williams’ go-slow strategy has so far kept a semblance of order within the Conference, with only a quarter of the bishops absent, a strategy of avoidance cloaked in the mantra of dialogue may risk his being neutered in the Anglican future, traditionalist leaders tell ReligiousIntelligence.com.

Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper.