Anglican Archbishops: no consensus on Episcopal Church
Many leaders remain skeptical of the U.S. organization's promises to stop consecrating gay bishops and authorizing same-sex blessings.
By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 15, 2007

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, in a long-awaited message to the global Anglican Communion he heads, said Friday there was no consensus among Anglican leaders on whether the Episcopal Church had met demands that it stop consecrating openly gay bishops and authorizing same-sex blessings.

In an Advent letter released Friday, Williams said just more than half of the fellowship's top bishops and archbishops had responded positively to recent pledges from the Episcopal Church to roll back its relatively liberal positions on homosexuality and the Bible. the rest