Mark+

Your "suspicion" expresses my feeling on the matter.
That is why I said there was no call to a
"Constitutional Convention."  I meant that there was
no action taken that is apparently necessary to
address the crisis.  The old ways of reacting will not
produce a timely result.  There seems to be no sense
of urgency of changing old ways to prevent disaster.

John XXIII in all candor admitted that his old church
needed to "throw open the windows". The reforms that
were urgently needed have had good effect and
continue.  Arguably, JPII is a third world Bishop.  It
was unthinkable in the years prior to VAT II that one
such as he could rise to the throne of Peter. The RC
church is no longer captive to a small group of
Italians. Upon his death, it is possible, due to the
reforms and expansion of the college of cardinals,
that JPII's successor may be from Africa or other
third world country.

The Anglican Communion is still young.  It appears to
me not to have shed some of its ways that were
developed in the days of British supremacy and
imperialism.

Charles+

--- Mark Clavier+ <anglican@...> wrote:
> John+,
> 
> Go to the Church of Ireland website and you'll find
> Eames' synod address in
> which he strongly attacks what Ecusa is doing.  I am
> on another listserv
> that has a number of Church of Ireland conservatives
> on it.  According to
> them, while Eames is less than tolerant of those
> opposed to the ordination
> of women (alas!) he is strongly against liberalizing
> the Church's moral
> teachings about human sexuality.  They are pleased
> with his appointment.
> 
> My own suspicion is that they should be called
> Commission Impossible.  In
> the next year, things will be developing so quickly
> that it will be very
> difficult for the commission just to stay current.
> 
> Mark+
> 
> 
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