\nThe Church of England’s ruling body has voted its support for women to
\nbecome bishops without giving traditionalist supporters of male-only
\npriesthood the concessions they had sought.<\/p>\n
One bishop broke down in tears at the meeting of senior British church
\nleaders Monday in York, northern England, as he described his distress
\nat the church’s lack of willingness to accommodate traditionalists who
\nhave threatened to leave if they felt they were not adequately
\nprotected.<\/p>\n
“I feel ashamed,” said the Right Rev. Stephen Venner, Bishop of Dover,
\nwho is in favor of women bishops. “We have talked for hours about
\nwanting to give an honorable place to those who disagree. We have been
\ngiven opportunities for both views to flourish. We have turned down
\nevery, almost realistic opportunity for those who are opposed, to
\nflourish.”<\/p>\n
Both sides conceded that tradition of male-only bishops would be
\nchanged, and the lengthy debate centered on what accommodation would be
\ngiven to dissenters. This was not billed as a final decision; church
\nlegislation to implement the change is to be debated next year.<\/p>\n
I must be dense, but I never understood The Church of England’s ruling body has voted its support for women to become bishops without giving traditionalist supporters of male-only priesthood the concessions they had sought. One bishop broke…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhow this was not anything but inevitable. After you swallow
\nwomen priests and dump scripture, theology, sacred traditions, and the
\nChurch Fathers regarding this then what in the world would not allow
\nwomen priests to become bishops. It seems to me that the only
\nreal reason at the time that they did not allow women bishops was
\npolitical and just and effort to not bleed off even more members as a
\nresult. I mean what theology or tradition could separate
\npriests from becoming bishops if gender was not part of the equation?
\n I wonder if Anglicans who at that time were against women
\nbishops if they really did not see the day when they would be approved?
\n Though I guess all of us have ways to fool ourselves from
\nseeing something. For Anglicans and really most
\nProtestants what is controversial today will be approved and will
\nbecome the norm tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"