Have Three Provinces who Disagree over Homosexuality and Women Bishops left the Anglican Communion?
by David Virtue, VOL:
It was inevitable, of course. Sooner or later a revisionist Western Anglican archbishop would say what a lot of people are thinking — that by refusing to participate in the Lambeth Conference one had, in fact, left the Anglican Communion.
This was the conclusion reached this past week by Canadian Anglican Primate Linda Nicholls. She proclaimed in the Anglican Journal that the boycott of the Lambeth Conference by the provinces of Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda was a sign that those provinces have left the global grouping of Anglican churches.
“Some have already indicated by their non-participation that they have separated from the Anglican Communion. Others continue to participate despite disagreement and I see that continuing into the future,” she said.
Well, there goes the grand new-fangled but fake “doctrines” of inclusion and diversity so praised and revered by western liberals.
She also noted that Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, told bishops at Lambeth he did not have the authority to exclude any church from the Anglican Communion. Welby’s power is one way. He cannot exclude but he cannot admit.
Of course, he cannot, but he also refused to admit an orthodox Anglican province like the Anglican Church in North America because he sees them as being in competition with the Episcopal Church. God forbid that he should recognize them.
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