TLC: Multiple Resolutions Await Bishops on Monday
09/22/2007

At least five “mind of the house” resolutions have been submitted for plenary discussion by the House of Bishops before their meeting concludes Sept. 25. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori had previously requested that all resolutions for consideration be submitted no later than Sept. 20, the meeting’s opening day.

Copies of the proposed resolutions, along with other reports and documents, have been made available near the entrance to the New Orleans conference room where the bishops are meeting. Some of the resolutions bear the signed endorsement of more than one bishop; however no formal discussion of resolutions is scheduled before Monday.

The Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley, Bishop of Alabama, has submitted draft language of a response to all of the requests the primates made of the House of Bishops in the Feb. 19 communiqué from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In it, Bishop Parsley notes that General Convention has already responded affirmatively to the questions for clarification on same-sex blessings and homosexual bishops in monogamous relationships. He recommends that the matter be referred to the Anglican Consultative Council. the rest