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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:46:24 -0500
Subject: [ENS] Episcopal bishops offer Tanzania communiqué reflections, predictions for future
Episcopal News Service
February 22, 2007
Episcopal bishops offer Tanzania communiqué
reflections, predictions for future
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[ENS] Bishops around the Episcopal Church have begun
to talk with their dioceses about the communiqué
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82571_ENG_HTM.htm
issued February 19 from the Primates meeting in Dar
es Salaam, Tanzania.
The Primates of the Anglican Communion have called
for the formation of a "Pastoral Council" that would
work with the Episcopal Church to negotiate the
necessary structures for those who feel unable to
accept the direct ministry of their bishop or of the
Presiding Bishop.
The Primates also asked that the House of Bishops
"make an unequivocal common covenant" by September
30 that they will not authorize same-gender
blessings within their dioceses and confirm that
Resolution B033
http://gc2006.org/legislation/view_leg_detail.aspx?id=433&type=CURRENT
passed at the 75th General Convention, means that a
candidate for bishop who is living in a same-gender
relationship "shall not receive the necessary
consent unless some new consensus on these matters
emerges across the Communion."
"If the reassurances ... cannot in good conscience
be given, the relationship between the Episcopal
Church and the Anglican Communion as a whole remains
damaged at the best, and this has consequences for
the full participation of the Church in the life of
the Communion," the communiqué says.
An Episcopal News Service report on the communiqué
is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82570_ENG_HTM.htm
Full story:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_82776_ENG_HTM.htm