Lambeth seeks common ground in proposed covenant

Marites N. Sison
staff writer
Aug 1, 2008

Bishops of the Anglican Communion Friday began the first of two days of discussions on the second draft of the proposed Anglican Covenant that is being heralded as a way for the Anglican Communion to heal relationships fractured by deep divisions over human sexuality.

“This (Covenant) is a badly-needed mechanism for solving our problems”, said Archbishop Drexel Gomez, primate of the Church of the Province of the West Indies and chair of the Windsor Covenant Design Group. Anglicans have “only used meetings in the past,” to deal with issues. “We have no legal framework, no magisterium.”

Archbishop Gomez said that the covenant is not intended to be a legal contract, but rather “a mechanism to redefine the basic tenets of Anglicanism.” the rest