From The Church Times-THE House of Bishops' preference for "option one" for the legislation to enable women to be consecrated bishops ( News, 31 May) has been strongly criticised by the Catholic Group in the General Synod as a "step backwards". The motion involves "the repeal of the statutory rights to pass Resolutions A and B under the 1993 Measure".
Forward in Faith, another traditionalist group, warned that the proposed legislation "sweeps away existing legal security" and "damages trust".
In the first detailed traditionalist response, issued last Friday, Canon Simon Killwick, chairman of the Catholic Group, said that it was "saddened" by the Bishops' choice, accusing them of "closing down debate before it has started".
He wrote: "Option one will not help to achieve a consensus; it will not create legislation capable of achieving the required majorities. It would tear up the current settlement over women priests, and replace it with arrangements which no one would be obliged to follow."
More here-
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/7-june/news/uk/traditionalists-slam-women-bishops-plan
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