Venables visit to Fort Worth "unwarranted invasion"
Episcopal Life Online reports that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has advised Southern Cone Presiding Bishop Gregory J. Venables that his planned May 2-3 visit to address a special convocation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth "with the expressed purpose of describing removal to the Province of the Southern Cone is an unwarranted invasion of, and meddling in, the internal affairs of this Province." Copies have been sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dear Gregory,
I write to urge you not to bring further discord into The Episcopal Church. Visiting a special convocation of the Diocese of Fort Worth with the expressed purpose of describing removal to the Province of the Southern Cone is an unprecedented and unwarranted invasion of, and meddling in, the internal affairs of this Province. I ask you to consider how you might receive such a visit to your own Province from a fellow primate. The actions contemplated by some leaders in Fort Worth are profoundly uncanonical. They also prevent needed reconciliation from proceeding within this Province.I urge you to focus your pastoral ministry within your own Province. May your ministry there be fruitful. I remain
Your servant in Christ,
Katharine Jefferts Schori
Read the rest of the story here.
There is one minor error in the story. The *Steering Committee* did not begin to work to identify people who wish to remain Episcopalians immediately after the last diocesan convention. *Some people who are now members of the Steering Committee* began to do that work. The Steering Committee did not begin to come into existence until about six weeks ago.
I have other comments on this story on my blog at wildernessgarden.blogspot.com.
Katie Sherrod
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April 29, 2008 9:09 PM