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Anglican split: what will it mean for everybody else?
Dear Friends,
In response to your feedback for a bit of a slow down, we've decided to hold over Tom McMahon's commentary for today until next week simply to allow readers to absorb the huge amount of information we published yesterday from Andrew Kania and Richard Sipe. (See story summaries below if you haven't yet caught up.) It would be remiss of me not to draw to your attention though a news story in The Age newspaper this morning wherein the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Dr Peter Jensen, speaking from Jerusalem claims the Anglican Church has now split. He's presently in Jerusalem heading a conference of the world-wide Biblical literalist, conservative and fundamentalist wing which has now set itself up in opposition to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lambeth Conference. For those interested we might have a discussion in the Catholica forum on the possible consequences of that for the rest of Christianity. <more>
In the meantime here's the summary of the two big reports we brought you yesterday for those who are still catching up…
 WORLD EXCLUSIVE… A highly tense diplomatic situation has developed between Rome and the leaders of the Ukrainian Catholics who are presently meeting ina Synod in Kiev. The tension has been caused by a perceived slight dished out to the Ukrainians by Rome in their desire to court the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. Rome appears to have gone back on a commitment given by Pope Benedict's predecessor to recognise a Ukrainian Patriarch. The about-face by Rome is an effort to appease Moscow but it has unleashed deep feelings of disquiet amongst the Ukrainians. Catholica readers have access to the insides of this story thanks to Dr Andrew Kania's esteemed position within the Ukrainian Catholic Church internationally as a writer who has long sought to bring greater understanding of the Eastern churches in the Western hemisphere of the universal Church. <more>
 Richard Sipe's overview report of Bishop Robinson in America Renowned campaigner against sexual abuse, Richard Sipe, has sent us this extended overview for Australian readers of how Bishop Geoffrey Robinson was received by the audiences who attended his lectures in America... <more>
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