No change to American ban, ACC says

Posted on July 15, 2011 
Filed under Global

“The Archbishop of Canterbury’s ban on American participation in the Anglican Communion’s international ecumenical dialogues remains in place, a spokesman for the Anglican Consultative Council reports. …

Since Dr. Rowan Williams issued his May 28, 2010 Pentecost letter to the Anglican Communion, there has been controversy over how faithfully its terms have been implemented by the London-based staff of the ACC. …

The reappointment of one of the dismissed Americans to the ALIC, with the same role in the dialogue as before but with the new title of “consultant” further diminished the credibility and integrity of the ACC staff, one Global South leader told CEN.”

– Report from George Conger for the Church of England Newspaper. (Photo taken at the November 2008 JSC meeting: ACNS Rosenthal.)