'Difficult days' for Anglican Church
Archbishop says homosexuality issue threatens 'to divide us'
By LAUREN LA ROSE, CP
April 17, 2007

An impassioned ideological difference within the Anglican Church over the role of gays threatens to create a schism among the faithful, the church's worldwide spiritual leader said yesterday in announcing plans to meet with its embattled U.S. wing.

"These are difficult days," Archbishop Rowan Williams said on the first day of his Canadian visit. "I think the (church) in recent years has had to face the fact that the division on certain subjects, especially sexuality, has been getting much more deep and bitter and threatens to divide us."

Williams, speaking at the Toronto headquarters of the Anglican Church of Canada, said his aim is to "keep people around the table as long as possible on this to understand one another. the rest