From the New York Times. I know sometimes the NYT link won't let you in so I'll tell you that later in the article Laurie says that the primates who met with Rowan Friday issued no statement. The official statements coming from the group (IMHO) seem awfully disrespectful of the wider communion.Conservative Anglicans in the United States and Canada said Friday that they intended to proceed immediately with plans to create their own branch of the Anglican Communion, separate from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada, despite warnings from the archbishop of Canterbury that winning official recognition could take years.
“This is not being put on hold while we wait for a committee in England to tell us which form to fill out,” said the Rev. Peter Frank, a spokesman for Bishop Robert Duncan, who led a majority of churches in the Diocese of Pittsburgh out of the Episcopal Church this year and is to become the archbishop and primate of the new province.
Theological conservatives representing a collection of breakaway dioceses, parishes and church networks announced Wednesday in Wheaton, Ill., the creation of a new province called the Anglican Church in North America. Despite serious differences among them, they are united in their condemnation of what they call the Episcopal Church’s drift to the left, most significantly its decision five years ago to consecrate an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire.
On Thursday, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, warned the conservatives to slow down and follow the rules of the Anglican Communion, the world’s third-largest body of churches, with 77 million members. He has been struggling to keep the Communion from schism, with homosexuality as the fault line.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/06/us/06episcopal.html
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