Williams gives stark warning over Church unity
By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent
23/02/2007

The Anglican Communion may still fall apart over homosexuality in spite of the eleventh-hour truce agreed by its leaders in Tanzania this week, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, warns today.

But the effort to keep the worldwide Church in one piece was worthwhile, even though it might look like a dysfunctional family heading for the divorce courts, Dr Williams said in an article for The Daily Telegraph.

The Archbishop said that the "painful intensity" of the talks, which very nearly ended in a split, had not represented the "easy option". the rest