Anglicans lack structure to solve gay row – prelate
The worldwide Anglican Communion lacks the structures needed to end its current impasse over homosexuality, a conservative prelate opposed to gay clergy and same-sex marriages said in Kenya on Wednesday.
Greg Venables, archbishop of the Southern Cone of Americas, was speaking in the capital Nairobi ahead of a controversial ceremony on Thursday where Kenya’s Anglican archbishop will consecrate two conservative U.S. clerics as bishops.
“There are no official structures to resolve things, so part of the major struggle we are going through is to work out how we actually resolve a conflict of this nature,” he told reporters.
The worldwide Anglican Communion has authorities for each of its 38 provinces, but no umbrella authority above that, said Venables, who is based in Buenos Aires. Read more
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