Meanwhile the fight over women Bishops goes on across the pond. (Now that's what I call a hat!) Has anyone else noticed, or is it just me, but it seems like a bishop's ability to extend grace is inversely proportional to the size of the mitre ?The Rt Rev John Broadhurst, the Bishop of Fulham, condemned the General Synod for going against the Bible and tradition by voting to introduce women bishops without making provision for opponents to the historic reform.
In a strongly-worded speech, he also declared the 80 million-strong Anglican Communion "finished" and likened the organisation of its once-a-decade meeting, the Lambeth Conference, to Stalin's Russia.
His comments come amid continuing turmoil in the Church of England over the ordination of female bishops.
In July the Synod, the 467-member "parliament" which is made up of lay members as well as clergy and bishops, voted that women should be admitted to the episcopate with only as unwritten code of practice to cater for Anglo-Catholics and conservative evangelicals who are bitterly opposed to the innovation.
The rest is here-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/3174158/Church-of-Englands-parliament-is-sinful-over-women-bishops-vote-says-Bishop-of-Fulham.html
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