Emergency Episcopal-Anglican Talks Bring No Consensus on Homosexuality
Episcopal and Anglican leaders have failed to reach consensus at a closed meeting this week in New York on how the worldwide Anglican Communion can move forward from the controversy over homosexuality in the church.
Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2006

NEW YORK – A crucial meeting in New York this week has failed to bring the gathered Episcopal and Anglican leaders to a common agreement on how to move the Anglican Communion forward from the controversy that continues to rage over homosexuality in the church.

The three-day meeting, which began on Monday, brought together key leaders from both churches at an undisclosed location in the city to "review the current landscape of the church in view of the conflicts within the Episcopal Church”.

The meeting, at an undisclosed location in New York, came at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who had received requests from seven dioceses for a new overseer. The conservative dioceses had made the request in opposition to the increasing support for homosexuality in the U.S. Episcopal Church.

"We could not come to a consensus on a common plan to move forward to meet the needs of the dioceses that issued the appeal for Alternate Primatial Oversight," read a statement issued this morning on the Anglican Communion News Service.

Meanwhile in statement released today, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke positively of the meeting.

“It's a positive sign that these difficult conversations have been taking place in a frank and honest way,” the statement read.

“There is clearly a process at work and although it hasn't yet come to fruition, the openness and charity in which views are being shared and options discussed are nevertheless signs of hope for the future.

“Our prayers continue,” he said. the rest