The Common Cause Partners petitioned the GAFCON primates (6 out the 34 in the communion) to recognise them as the legitimate expression of Anglicanism in North America. The GAFCON primates met last week and it looks like Common Cause is going to have to wait. (Photo by Julia Margaret Camer 1815-1879)"At the same time, the Council and its Advisory Board will seek to deal with the problems of those who have confessed the biblical faith in the face of hostility and found the need on grounds of conscience and in matters of great significance to break the normal bonds of fellowship in the name of the gospel. For the sake of the Anglican Communion this is an effort to bring order out of the chaos of the present time and to make sure as far as possible that some of the most faithful Anglican Christians are not lost to the Communion. It is expected that priority will be given to the possible formation of a province in North America for the Common Cause Partnership."
The communique is here -
http://www.gafcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=31
The Common Cause Petition is here -
http://www.united-anglicans.org/stream/2008/07/jerusalem-declaration.html
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What the statement identified as the CCP petition actually says is:
"The intention of the CCP Executive Committee is to petition the Primates Council for recognition of the CCP as the North American Province of GAFCON on the basis of the Common Cause Partnership Articles, Theological Statement, and Covenant Declaration, and to ask that the CCP Moderator be seated in the Primates Council."
Although there has been much speculation about the matter, I have yet to see evidence that such a petition has actually been submitted.
It will be interesting to see who ends up with the real position of power among these men. Why do I keep being reminded of Valhalla?
So much for the Catholicity of the
Anglican Communion.
My question is will the common cause partners really stick together? I have friends who are Anglo-Catholics who quote scripture about the ordination of women. The Reformed Episcopal Church came into being because they couldn't get use to the idea of candles on the altar and the "popery," used by Anglo-Catholics. How do you seat a group who may or may not stay together?
Maybe we could seat all the groups at the primates meetings, ACC, Fifna, REC, ACN ect...
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