Church ponders rules on disputes
Sunday, 8 July 2007

Dr Williams has said the Anglican Church risks being torn apartThe Church of England is to consider possible rules for settling disputes in the Anglican Church, amid divisions over the ordination of gay priests.

Its general synod, meeting in York, is to hear from the Most Reverend Drexel Gomez, chairman of the group designing the possible "covenant" agreement.

Anglican divisions over issues such as the 2003 US ordination of a gay bishop prompted the idea of a set of rules.

The row has brought Anglicans near to schism, says the BBC's Robert Pigott. the rest