Episcopal Head Rejects Disciplinary Actions

Thu, Jun. 03 2010
By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post Reporter

The head of The Episcopal Church is troubled by efforts within the Anglican Communion to discipline the U.S. body over its pro-gay actions.

In a recent letter to U.S. Episcopalians, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said the proposal to impose sanctions against dissident churches is a "push toward centralized authority" – the very thing Anglicans repudiated when they separated from the Roman Catholic Church.

"Unitary control does not characterize Anglicanism; rather, diversity in fellowship and communion does," she said in the pastoral letter, released Wednesday.

The letter comes days after the spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, Dr. Rowan Williams, proposed that dissident provinces, namely The Episcopal Church, should not participate in the ecumenical dialogues in which the communion is formally engaged. the rest