[Apologetics] Gene Robinson and Martyn Minns NOT Invited to Lambeth Conference

[Art Kelly]

This article states in part:

"A spokesman for the Archbishop of Canterbury said
that Dr. Williams might eventually issue an invitation
for Robinson to attend the Lambeth Conference, but he
is not currently considering an invitation to Minns."

The rest of the Catholic World News article at
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=51294
states:

Controversial Anglican prelates not invited to Lambeth
Conference  

London, May. 22, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The Archbishop of
Canterbury has issued invitations to 800 Anglican
bishops to attend the 2008 Lambeth Conference--
conspicuously omitting invitations to two highly
controversial American prelates. 

In inviting Anglican leaders from around the world to
the gathering at Canterbury, Archbishop Rowan Williams
said that the conference could "deepen our sense of a
common calling for us as a coherent and effective
global Church family." He added that the assembled
Anglican leaders should "try and get more clarity
about the limits of our diversity and the means of
deepening our communion." The worldwide leader of the
Anglican communion was obviously referring to severe
tensions that have arisen over the ordination of women
and homosexuals as bishops. 

Invitations to the Lambeth Conference "are issued on a
personal basis by the Archbishop of Canterbury," the
Anglican Communion noted, and should not be seen "as
certificate of doctrinal orthodoxy." Nevertheless, in
his first group of invitations Dr. Williams declined
to include an openly homosexual American bishop or
another American bishop who was recently consecrated
by a conservative African prelate despite protests
from other American Episcopal leaders. 

Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire is an openly gay
man whose selection in 2003 opened a deep divide
within the Anglican communion. Bishop Martyn Minns of
the breakaway "Convocation of Anglicans in North
America" was consecrated on May 5 by Nigerian
Archbishop Peter Akinola, who ignored pleas from the
Episcopal Church of the US and from the Archbishop of
Canterbury to avoid becoming involved in the disputes
among Anglicans in the US. 

Art 

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