What a mess. Damion Thompson form the UK Telegraph has more at Disintegrating Anglican Communion to call in professional mediators
As on commenter wisely notes where is the Queen in all this? He says:
"Perhaps they should ask the Queen to mediate as she's Defender of the Faith, the Catholic title she inherited from Henry VIII for his support of the Vatican against Lutherism. "
Why not. She is also is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and dependencies. A good bit of the Anglican Communion resides in this places and the British Commonwealth were she has also some duties.
It appears she if a person of faith:
"To many of us, our beliefs are of fundamental importance. For me, the teachings of Christ, and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life. I, like so many of you, have drawn great comfort in difficult times from Christ's words and example."
I often wonder she thinks all about this and wonders if she realizes that when Christianity is weakened so is her Kingdom. No doubt her coming into the matter would be of great great controversy but heck times is running out. In other words time to take some action even though it entails some risk. At some point I have to think That the Anglican Communion coming to shreds under her watch is something that she would not like to happen.
On a side note she also has another card to play that is significant. That is her Orthodoxy Connections. At some point the Anglican Primates are going to have to recognize the fact that connection of the two Churches of Apostolic origin is about to be lost.
People forget of her Orthodox connections
Her Majesty is a blood descendant of such Orthodox Saints as St Edward the Martyr.
- Orthodox Christian since in the generation of Her Majesty's grandfather, no fewer than three close relatives are honoured by the Orthodox Church as martyrs: the martyred Emperor and Empress Nicholas and Alexandra and St Alexandra's sister, St Elizabeth the New Martyr, whose icon hangs on our icon-screen before us.
- Orthodox Christian since Her Majesty married into the Greek Orthodox Royal House. The Queen's husband, Prince Philip, is an Orthodox Christian. On widowhood, his mother became a devout Orthodox nun for whom an Orthodox chapel was established in Buckingham Palace. And when she passed away in 1969, she was buried alongside her above-mentioned relative, Queen Victoria's favourite grand-daughter, the New Martyr Elizabeth, in our convent in Jerusalem.
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