Chicago consecration sends clear message on gay clergy
The Chicago Tribune reports Chicago's new bishop, Jeffrey Lee, and the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori sent a clear message about where they stand on gay clergy and on the issues facing the Episcopal Church.
Wrapping up a five-day tour in honor of Jeffrey Lee, the new Chicago bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori declared that the American church will not stand alone in its support of gay clergy during an international meeting in July in Lambeth, England."Many more [bishops] than you might expect are sympathetic," Jefferts Schori, the presiding Episcopal bishop, told parishioners at St. Nicholas Church in Elk Grove Village. "They are not, however, the loudest voices."
At his installation at the Cathedral, Lee reminded the congregation of their call to ministry by virtue of their baptism, not their liberal or conservative interpretations of Scripture.
That's one of the tragedies afflicting the church right now," he said. "So many of us seem to think that salvation depends on our theological correctness.
The Rev. Alex Seabrook, 82, who was ordained in 1954 and attended the service at St. Nicholas to watch the presiding bishop baptize twins said:
I've seen the church of the past. The whole service today was the church of the future.
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