ACNS4739 - From the Secretary General

From Worldwide Faith News <wfn@igc.org>
Date Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:40:21 -0700

From the Secretary General


Posted On : October 14, 2010 4:39 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
ACNS: http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2010/10/14/ACNS4739
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The Secretary General writes: 'Many of you will have read the
Archbishop of Canterbury's letter to the Anglican Communion  issued at
Pentecost last (28 May 2010). Part of that letter addresses the
current and ongoing tensions in the Anglican Communion - these
tensions cluster around the three moratoria referred to in the 
Windsor Repo rt.

'In that letter the Archbishop made the following proposals:

"I am therefore proposing that, while these tensions remain
unresolved, members of such provinces ? provinces that have formally,
through their Synod or House of Bishops, adopted policies that breach
any of the moratoria requested by the Instruments of Communion and
recently reaffirmed by the Standing Committee and the Inter-Anglican
Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) ? should not
be participants in the ecumenical dialogues in which the Communion is
formally engaged. I am further proposing that members of such
provinces serving on IASCUFO should for the time being have the status
only of consultants rather than full members".
'At that time I wrote to the Primate of the Southern Cone, whose
interventions in other provinces are referred to in the Windsor
Continuation Group Report asking him for clarification as to the
current state of his interventions into other provinces. I have not
received a response.

'Consequently, I have written to the person from the Province of the
Southern Cone who is a member of the Inter Anglican Standing
Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO), Bishop Tito Zavala,
withdrawing his membership and inviting him to serve as a Consultant
to that body.

'These decisions are not taken easily or lightly, but relate to the
gracious restraint requested by successive meetings of the Instruments
of Communion and the implications for Communion bodies when these
requests are not honoured.'


The Revd Canon Dr. Kenneth Kearon.