Monday, October 6, 2008

Women bishops face 'flying bigots'

Meanwhile in England their still having a row over women bishops. From the London Telegraph.

Last Friday, I was locked in St Paul’s Cathedral with a couple of hundred of my fellow clergy from the Diocese of London for what was styled a “Sacred Synod”. We sat under Sir Christopher Wren’s giddying dome to hear the Rt. Rev. Dr Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, invite carefully selected colleagues to reflect on something called The London Plan and how it could be re-invigorated to take account of the prospect of women bishops.

This much we know: There will be women bishops in the Church of England as soon as legislatively possible. But the fight is not yet over from those within the Church who oppose them. There is clearly an Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical rearguard action, against the will of the Church’s executive, to enshrine men-only Episcopal oversight in law for dissenters – and a good deal of positioning, some posturing and not a little psychological denial among those who wish to secure such provision.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/10/06/do0605.xml

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