Archbishop Duncan of the Anglican Church of North America on the Anglican schism

November 15, 2009
by Scott Maniquet
By Charles Lewis, National Post

St. Catharines, Ont. — Archbishop Robert Duncan rejects the term “breakaway” to describe the faction of orthodox Anglicans he now leads.

He argues, instead, that the more than 700 orthodox Anglican parishes in Canada and the United States that have left their national churches behind represent where the vast majority of Anglicans in the world are — and where the rest of the Anglicans will soon be.

Archbishop Duncan, visiting Canada last week for the first time since he became head of the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA), the first Anglican jurisdiction that crosses national boundaries, earlier this year, says it is the national churches in Canada and the United States — the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church USA — that are the real schismatics, trading in the Bible and orthodoxy for a trendy form of Christianity that is trying to be popular instead of faithful.

Those institutions have “turned so far to the left” they are now on the road to virtual oblivion, he said, pointing to such innovations as the blessing of same-sex marriage.

“They’ll become irrelevancies,” he said during an interview with the National Post. “People who are looking for a saviour who can save.
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