“People and parishes prepared for irregular action” Reform Chairman
Thursday October 18th 2007
Anglican Mainstream

The Church of England Newspaper reports:

THE new chairman of an Anglican traditionalist network seeking to uphold orthodox teaching in the Church of England warned that it may be forced to carry out irregular ordinations in the future. The Rev Rod Thomas, chairman of the Reform network after replacing the Rev David Banting, was due to say in his speech at the group’s national conference in London this week that as the ‘liberal threat’ in the Church of England increases, ‘people and parishes will have to be prepared for irregular action in response’. He was due to add: “Increasingly, parishes will want to distance themselves from those bishops whose teaching is unbiblical and divisive. “This may amount no more to an unwillingness to join such bishops around the Communion table. “But as we’ve seen in Chelmsford, even these actions can be costly when a bishop refuses to ordain bona fide candidates.” the rest