Anglicans cut Episcopalians from ecumenical bodies

[struggle4progress]

... The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, announced Monday that Episcopalians had been downgraded from members to consultants in formal ecumenical dialogues, annual meetings between Anglicans and clergy in other churches intended to build friendship and better understand one another's traditions and issues of mutual concern such as points of theology and ways of worshipping.

Kearon said he had also written to the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada to ask whether it has formally adopted a policy backing same-sex blessings.

The Canadian church's governing General Synod is meeting this week, and is discussing whether to debate a motion on the issue.

The Episcopal News Service said the Rev. Katherine Grieb, an Episcopal priest and professor of New Testament at Virginia Theological Seminary, was downgraded from member to consultant to the Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order ...

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[Divine Discontent]

1. and therefore, the Episcopalians need to remember this saying...

"I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man, than a fool in the eyes of GOD"

[realisticphish]

2. Father Ted

has ruined the word "ecumenical" for me


THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER