Post-Gazette Editorial today.But divorce -- the most apt analogy -- is most frequently painful. In a church, no less than in a marriage, there is pain when those who loved each other are put asunder.
Bitterness is a likely outcome of the various strands of unraveling in this union -- through arguments about who was right and who was wrong, legal disputes over church property and perhaps even uneasiness over what the dissident party wishes to call itself. Both will say they are the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, but one will add -- confusingly to outsiders -- "of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone." Bishop Robert Duncan, deposed last month by the Episcopal House of Bishops, is likely to become leader of the breakaway congregation.
Yes, it is not for others to take sides, but it is for others to join their hands in prayer for a faith community divided.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08281/917918-192.stm
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