On the first of these links provided, we have the scattered comments from various sources on the so-called ‘Anglican Mainstream’ website – one of them, from the well-known ‘Virtueonline’ commentator, David Virtue, posits what he sees as a deliberately oppositional set of Anglican meetings in different parts of the world. (1) the Global South (including Gafcon) in Cairo – under the leadership of Abp. Mouneer Anis, and (2) in Rome – under the Leadership of the ABC. Virtue’s piece articulates the conspiracy theory that the Rome Meeting between the ABC and Pope Francis was a deliberate attempt by Canterbury to… Read more »
cseitz
7 years ago
Bizarre. The Pope’s own legate sent greetings to the GS meeting.
If you want to concoct scenarios, Mr Smith, you’d do better to worry about a GS-Canterbury-RC-Orthodox agreement on far more than they disagree about.
The Secretary General of the AC is himself a GS member.
S Cooper
7 years ago
we kid ourselves if we think Welby (let alone the Pope) would coordinate in any way to undermine the GS;especially as they are both natural supporters of the GS. The pope wouldn’t care. Welby has many GS friends. No point pretending people are working for a liberal communion when they are not and when they clearly are keen on the large numbers they see globally.
Interested Observer
7 years ago
“No point pretending people are working for a liberal communion when they are not”
Matthew 7:15-16 applies to Archbishops as well as anyone else.
On the first of these links provided, we have the scattered comments from various sources on the so-called ‘Anglican Mainstream’ website – one of them, from the well-known ‘Virtueonline’ commentator, David Virtue, posits what he sees as a deliberately oppositional set of Anglican meetings in different parts of the world. (1) the Global South (including Gafcon) in Cairo – under the leadership of Abp. Mouneer Anis, and (2) in Rome – under the Leadership of the ABC. Virtue’s piece articulates the conspiracy theory that the Rome Meeting between the ABC and Pope Francis was a deliberate attempt by Canterbury to… Read more »
Bizarre. The Pope’s own legate sent greetings to the GS meeting.
If you want to concoct scenarios, Mr Smith, you’d do better to worry about a GS-Canterbury-RC-Orthodox agreement on far more than they disagree about.
The Secretary General of the AC is himself a GS member.
we kid ourselves if we think Welby (let alone the Pope) would coordinate in any way to undermine the GS;especially as they are both natural supporters of the GS. The pope wouldn’t care. Welby has many GS friends. No point pretending people are working for a liberal communion when they are not and when they clearly are keen on the large numbers they see globally.
“No point pretending people are working for a liberal communion when they are not”
Matthew 7:15-16 applies to Archbishops as well as anyone else.
“Matthew 7:15-16 applies to Archbishops as well as anyone else.”
Yet, it doesn’t mean a thing if we are given no immediate controls to drive away the wolf or pull up the thistle.