Posted on 07/22/2008 12:38:32 PM PDT by markomalley
It's about a hundred degrees and getting hotter in the Big Top at Lambeth but the £1 million black hole in the budget at the Lambeth Conference means they can't afford air conditioning. Expect fainting bishops to be ferried out by ambulances any moment now, if they don't start shooting each other first. The press conference this morning was a farce. Communications officers declined to comment on who is here for reasons of 'security' but declined to say what the 'security' issues were. Apparently there are some Nigerian bishops at the conference but we are not allowed to know who they are. Even the totally harmless and innocuous Church Press here are being denied access to the evening Eucharists. As for me, I was told yesterday that it was worth applying to attend the afternoon indaba groups. Today there is one called 'Never say No to Media', led by Rev Dr Joshva Raha, tutor at the Centre for Mission Studies at Queen's, Birmingham. I applied and they said no. The conference is falling apart and it is only day two of official business. The Sudanese bishops, who were, astonishingly, stationed as Salisbury with the US Presiding Bishop and her team before the conference, have almost derailed the whole thing by virtually calling for Gene Robinson's resignation. One of their two statements today is here.
gooThe funding crisis is more severe than we realised. A senior source has told me that it is up to £2 million in debt, and they are at a loss of how to meet this. 'We can't pay for it,' he told me, looking desperate. The prospect of the bailiffs turning up at Lambeth Palace to requisition some of those lovely old paintings of previous Archbishops is to unbearable for words.
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(h/t to Fr. Z)
The above comments are an indication of some of the deeper problems that face the Anglican communion.
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What ever happened to: Christ and him cruxified. Instead, all we hear is gay this and gay that.
You'll have to ask the Anglican bishops convened in their conference that question. I don't know why they are so focused on that.
Contraception was the “hurdle” that opened the way for “anything goes” for heterosexuals. Once homosexuality is beyond criticism, the way will be open for any sort of sexual behavior at all - stuff most of us have probably never considered.
There will, however, be only a few people left in the (rump) Church of England and its associates, while the real center of Christianity in the Anglican tradition - whatever its merits and demerits - will be in Africa.
“It’s about a hundred degrees and getting hotter in the Big Top at Lambeth”
Just a taste of what is going to come for the bishops. It is going to get a lot hotter. Scripture says that false teachers who betray their trust will be called to account on Judgment Day.
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