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Anglicans split on unity plan PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 16 May 2008 08:23

TOM FITZSIMONS - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Some New  Zealand Anglican leaders are against a plan to overhaul the global church, which is  split over letting gays become bishops. 

Supporters say the plan  - known as a covenant -  will  unify a church ''in crisis'' and beset by huge internal differences, but some influential Anglicans oppose it, saying the plan will give a central body new authority that will harm diversity and local autonomy.

The idea would lead to more power concentrated in the global Anglican Consultative Council, including the ability to cut off more extreme churches.

It follows years of internal ructions over how to respond to churches that ordain gay priests and even bishops. The Anglican General Synod of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia is meeting in Wellington at the James Cook Hotel this week before a 10-yearly gathering of the world's bishops.

Church leaders said the discussions were a free and frank exchange. They also spoke of their own hopes for unity.

Tony Fitchett, New Zealand's lay representative on the council and a supporter of gay ordination, said the covenant worried him. "What I do feel uncomfortable about is the process to eject people ... deciding that a church should be ejected." Such sweeping authority could spell a split with the entire Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada, he said. "I think [the power] would be likely to be used in that sort of way."

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