More reports on Kigali Communique and other readings
At Church Times, Pat Ashworth reports: "The President-Bishop in Jerusalem and the Middle East, the Most Revd Clive Handford, described the communiqué as different in kind from one issued after the meeting of Global South Primates in Egypt last year (News, 25 November). Then, he had denounced a letter from the meeting as having been neither discussed nor approved, but, this time, he said on Tuesday: “In substance, I can live with it. For me, the really important thing is not to erect unnecessary barriers, but to keep the dialogue going and open. On the whole, the communiqué probably helps rather than hinders that.” More here.
Presiding Bishop Griswold: "The communiqué from Kigali recommends that there be a separate ecclesial body within our province. The suggestion of such a division raises profound questions about the nature of the church, its ordering and its oversight. I further believe such a division would open the way to multiple divisions across other provinces of the Communion, and any sense of a coherent mission would sink into chaos." More here
From ENS: "…a September 28 statement from the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP) which clarified that its Prime Bishop, the Most Rev. Ignacio C. Soliba, “did not attend the meeting and was not a signatory to the so-called Kigali Communiqué.” More here.
Bishop Mark Macdonald (Alaska) on Camp Allen Meeting : "If The Episcopal Church fails to acknowledge that the New Hampshire consecration has precipitated a crisis within the Anglican Communion, it will be ever harder to bridge the widening chasm that is threatening to divide the worldwide association of Anglican churches, according to Alaska Bishop Mark L. MacDonald." More here
Dr Michael Poon reflects on the draft ‘Road to Lambeth’ report: "The Primates are wise in their decisions. We need to read The Road to Lambeth against the official document Kigali Communiqué, and indeed not the other way around. They are not two parallel statements from Kigali that bear the same authority. More here.
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