Alienation.Dear editor, Re: Bishop John Paterson's address to the Canadian church (Provinces 'unlikely' to add primates to Anglican council, January). Bishop Paterson contends that the Anglican Communion Anglican Communion, the body of churches in all parts of the world that are in communion with the Church of England (see England, Church of). The communion is composed of regional churches, provinces, and separate dioceses bound together by mutual loyalty as needs Canada and that Canada needs the Communion. Your article states, in reference to last summer's Anglican Consultative Council The Anglican Consultative Council or ACC is one of the four "Instruments of Communion" of the Anglican Communion. It was created by a resolution of the 1968 Lambeth Conference. (ACC See adaptive cruise control. ) meeting, that Bishop Paterson "apologized for the way Canadians were treated at the ACC. Both the Canadian and American churches had sent their ACC members to 'attend but not participate' in the June 18-29 meeting. While there, the Canadian and American delegation said they had felt 'exclusion' and 'alienation.'" If some feel "alienated al·ien·ate tr.v. al·ien·at·ed, al·ien·at·ing, al·ien·ates 1. To cause to become unfriendly or hostile; estrange: alienate a friend; alienate potential supporters by taking extreme positions. ," I wonder if they know how alienated mainstream Episcopalians feel about the decision to elect a gay bishop in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). and to bless same-sex unions without any vote of the worldwide church? When the church leadership, which supposedly represents the whole church, goes off half-cocked voting to elect gays to leadership positions, does this leadership truly believe that it is doing what the whole congregation of God's people wish or is it jamming its beliefs down the laity's throats? How long does the leadership believe that they can get away with this? George E. Danz Suffolk, Va. |
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