그 동안 세계 성공회 안에 같이 있던 미국 감독교회(episcopal church)가 세계 성공회로부터 배제 되었다고 하는 소식이 들려 옵니다. 지난 5월 미국 감독교회에서 레즈비언이고 12년간 여성 동반자와 살고 있는 여성 사제인 Mary Douglas Glasspool을 부감독(assistant bishop)으로 임직시킨 것에 대한 세계 성공회의 반응으로 판단됩니다. 이는 2003년에 뉴햄퓨셔에서 진 로빈슨(V. Gene Robinson)을 감독으로 임명한 것에 이어 두 번째 임직식이었다고 합니다. 영국 성공회의 대표라고 할 수 있는 칸터베리 대주교인 로완 윌리암스의 매우 이례적인 조치라고 여겨지는 이 상황은 그 동안 이 문제로 세계 성공회가 분열될 조짐을 보이고, 일부 사제들이 천주교회로 개종하려는 동향을 보이자 취해진 조치라고 여겨집니다.
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The Episcopal Church has been removed from Anglican committees that engage in dialogue with other Christians and consider doctrinal issues, the latest fallout from the church's consecration of a lesbian bishop in May.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the communion's spiritual leader, proposed the removals last month after Episcopalians in Los Angeles consecrated an open lesbian as an assistant bishop. Bishop Mary Douglas Glasspool is the second openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, after Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, consecrated in 2003.
While most Episcopalians support ordaining gays and lesbians as bishops, many Anglicans in the 77-million-member communion view homosexuality as a sin and have angrily confronted the Episcopal Church.
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori assertively pushed back last week against efforts to sideline her church in the Anglican Communion, arguing that Anglicans have always been led by local churches, not a centralized body of powerful clerics.
Williams had warned Episcopalians that consecrating Glasspool would have "consequences” for their communion role.
After Robinson's consecration, all 44 member churches in the Anglican Communion were asked to abide by three moratoria: no more gay bishops, no official blessings for same-sex unions, and no interfering in each other's provinces.
Kearon said he wrote to Episcopalians on the affected committees last week to inform them of the changes. The one Episcopalian on the "faith and order” committee, the Rev. Katherine Grieb, of Virginia, can serve as a consultant but not as a member, Kearon said. Kearon said he has written the head of the Anglican Church of Canada, asking whether his church has formally adopted liturgical rites for same-sex blessings. Kearon also said he has written to a South American archbishop who has welcomed conservative American bishops and dioceses into his province, about whether he has broken the third moratoria.
The breakaway dioceses of San Joaquin, Calif., Pittsburgh, Quincy, Ill., and Fort Worth, Texas, have been accepted into the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, which is based in Argentina.
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