Anglican Mainstream

 "The Communion is close to the point of breaking up", Archbishop Drexel Gomez told ACC-14 in Kingston Jamaica this morning  “If we cannot state clearly and simply what holds us together, and speak clearly at this meeting, then I fear there will be clear breaks in the Communion in the period following this meeting. Many of our Churches are asking to know where they stand – what can be relied on as central to the Anglican Communion; and how can disputes be settled without the wrangle and confusion that we have seen for the last seven years or more.”

The draft resolution before the council after preliminaries reads

4.  requests the Secretary General to send the Ridley Cambridge Draft to the member Churches of the Anglican Consultative Council for consideration and adoption as the Anglican Communion Covenant.

5. requests its member Churches to respond to Secretary General by December 2014 on the progress made in the processes of adoption and response to the Communion text.

Bishop Mouneer Anis of Egypt asked why the response could not be by 2012.  It was explained that the reason for the 2014 date was that 3-4 provinces had indicated that their constitutional processes would not allow a decision before 2015.  Datuk Stanley Isaacs from South East Asia asked why for such important business provinces who wanted to respond earlier could do so and others process the matter as extraordinary business.
 

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