From an article at Digital 50 on the decision of the Diocese of San Joaquin to withdraw from the Episcopal Church:
Bishop Frank Lyons of Bolivia read a statement from Archbishop Gregory Venables [of the Southern Cone], "Welcome Home. And welcome back into full fellowship in the Anglican Communion."
And then there's this posted by Ann Fontaine at the Episcopal Cafe from an email from The Rev. Canon Dr. James M. Rosenthal, Anglican Communion Office:
"Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has not in any way endorsed the actions of the Primate of the Southern Cone, Bishop Gregory Venables, in his welcoming of dioceses, such as San Joaquin in the Episcopal Church, to become part of his province in South America," a spokesman for the Anglican Communion said.
Where's the stern rebuke from the Archbishop of Canterbury? You've heard of faint praise, I'm sure. Can we call this faint condemnation? Is it condemnation at all? Is it mere disassociation?
Further thoughts from Mark Harris at Preludium.
UPDATE: Go read Fr. Jake on Ruth Gledhill's "reporting" for the Times of London.
I try to avoid reading Ruth Gledhill.
ReplyDeleteHer bias is too evident and her commenters are too rabid.
The nasty comments by the angry Anglo-catholic misogynists she seems to have gathered aren't worth my time.
And she's wrong, Dennis, wrong. As I said at Fr. Jake's, she's the Times' Judith Miller - except on a different topic. I confess to schadenfreude when I saw how neatly Jake had put his piece together.
ReplyDeleteI don't read her either, except through a link.
I find Ruth Gledhill's work worse than useless, and the sad thing is that she is considered an authority by those who don't know much.
ReplyDeleteRuth is glib and fancies herself a wit, but she's too often wrong, even with her "impeccable sources".
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