 There is now an official version of the controversial comments of Archbishop Andrew Hutchinson, the Canadian Primate, on 16 March 2005 at St James Cathedral, Toronto.
http://www.toronto.anglican.ca/index.asp?navid=78&fid3=368&layid=18&fid2=-888
Below is an extract:
'At the last Canadian General Synod, the Primates Theological Commission was asked to determine whether same-sex blessings are a pastoral or doctrinal issue. In response to a question, the Primate said that if the issue is pastoral, there will be no delay in moving forward with the blessings. Justice must be done in our time, in our place, in our way, he said to loud applause. Freedom to act in conscience is what autonomy is about.'
So much for the 'autonomy-in-communion' of the Windsor Report!
In our London Maundy Thursday service this morning at St Paul's Cathedral, I was struck by Bishop Richard Chartres' comment concerning current secular prophets:
'In [God] we know that the deadliest heresy of our time proclaimed by the prophets of darkness is this I do not need you to be myself.
For the whole text see:
http://www.london.anglican.org/NewsShow_4429
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