Anglican Report Avoids Schism, Snubs Conservatives
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter
Fri, Feb. 16 2007

There has been no talk of schism at the global Anglican meeting at all, said one of the archbishops.

Rather, after its first day, the critical meeting that many predicted to be a make-or-break time avoided a split and has been described as one of "patience, graciousness, care and respect," said Archbishop Phillip Aspinall of Australia, according to the Episcopal News Service.

Before addressing other global issues, Anglican primates from 35 provinces on Thursday went into sessions on the Episcopal Church and its response to the 2004 Windsor Report, which called for a moratorium on consecrating homosexuals and blessing same-sex unions.

The long-awaited response from U.S. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was revealed in a report by the Anglican Communion sub-group, headed by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans. According to the report, the Episcopal Church expressed "regret for straining the bonds of affection in the events surrounding the General Convention of 2003 and the consequences which followed." The 2003 consecration of an openly gay bishop was at the height of the controversy, causing divisions within the Anglican Communion. the rest