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• September Communique Compliance Report Available
• Last Chance to Sign TEC Legal Transparency Petition
• African Primates Release Communique
• Presiding Bishop Adds Four 'Episcopal Visitors'
• Church of England Bishop Concerned about Lambeth

September Communique Compliance Report Available

The sixth report of the American Anglican Council's (AAC) Communique Compliance Office (CCO) has been posted online and is available in PDF format on the AAC Web site. You may also download the report directly at the following link:

Download CCO Report No. 6

The Communique Compliance Office (CCO) was formed by the AAC immediately following the February 2007 meeting of the Anglican primates in Tanzania as a means for monitoring The Episcopal Church's compliance and defiance with respect to the requirements called for in the primates' communique.

Last Chance to Sign TEC Legal Transparency Petition

The AAC will soon close out the TEC Legal Transparency Petition. 

If you want to sign the petition and haven't had the chance, you can still go to www.showmethemoney.kintera.org  and sign.  You will not be solicited or e-mailed if you sign.  The TEC Legal Transparency Petition calls for The Episcopal Church (TEC) to state how much money it has spent since 2004 on litigation against individuals and parishes and to make public the source of the money for said litigation.  The petition currently has 5993 signatures. The petition will be used to shed light on a controversial issue that seems to have eluded the headlines and the nightly news stories.

African Primates Release Communique
Source: Global South website
Date:  October 6, 2007
CAPA Communique, Mauritius, Indian Ocean

The Communique, CAPA Primates’ Meeting in Mauritius, October 2007

We, the Primates of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) meeting 3rd to 5th October in Mauritius, Province of the Indian Ocean, issue this Communique from our meeting:

Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our one and only Saviour...

4. While meeting in Mauritius we received a copy of the report of the Joint Standing Committee (JSC) of the Primates and the Anglican Consultative Council. On first reading we find it to be unsatisfactory. The assurances made are without credibility and its preparation is severely compromised by numerous conflicts of interest. The report itself appears to be a determined effort to find a way for the full inclusion of The Episcopal Church with no attempt at discipline or change from their prior position.

5. We are convinced that what is at stake in this crisis is the very nature of Anglicanism - to understand it simply in terms of the need for greater inclusivity in the face of changing sexual ethics is a grave mistake. It is not just about sexuality but also about the nature of Christ, the truth of the Gospel and the authority of the Bible. We see a trend that seems to ignore the careful balance of reformed catholicity and missionary endeavor that is our true heritage and replace it with a religion of cultural conformity that offers no transforming power and no eternal hope.

6. In our considered opinion, however, there is a possible way forward. The Anglican Communion Covenant is the one way for us to uphold our common heritage of faith while at the same time holding each one of us accountable to those teachings that have defined our life together and also guide us into the future. We therefore propose the following actions:

a. Call a special session of the Primates Meeting.

We believe that meeting together is essential if we are prayerfully to allow the Holy Spirit to work through our interactions and bring us to a common mind. We would need to:

i. Review the actual response made by The Episcopal Church - both their words and their actions.
ii. Finalize the Covenant proposal and set a timetable for ratification by individual provinces.

b. Postpone current plans for the Lambeth Conference

We recognize that such an action will be costly, however, we believe that the alternative - a divided conference with several provinces unable to participate and hundreds of bishops absent would be much more costly to our life and witness. It would bring an end to the Communion, as we know it. Postponement will accomplish the following:
i. Allow the current tensions to subside and leave room for the hard work of reconciliation that must be done.
ii. Ensure that those invited to the Lambeth Conference have already endorsed the Covenant and so can come together as witness to our common faith.

7. We make these proposals in good faith believing that they provide an opportunity for us to reunite the Communion consistent with our common heritage and give us a way forward. We also stand ready to work with the various instruments of the Communion to ensure their success...

Read the rest of the Communique by clicking here.

Presiding Bishop Adds Four 'Episcopal Visitors'
Source:  The Living Church
Date:  October 8, 2007

By Steve Waring

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has accepted the nomination of four additional bishops to the "episcopal visitor" plan announced at the start of the recent House of Bishops’ meeting in New Orleans. This brings the total number of visitors to 12.

The four are: Bishop Philip Duncan of the Central Gulf Coast (Fla.), Bishop Duncan Gray of Mississippi, Bishop Suffragan Rayford High of Texas, and assisting Bishop Rodney Michel of Maryland. At least one of the four new visitors was unaware their application had been accepted when contacted by The Living Church...

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Church of England Bishop Concerned about Lambeth
Source:  UK Telegraph
Date:  October 10, 2007

By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent

...The Bishop of Rochester, the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, said he would find it difficult to attend a Church council alongside those who consecrated or approved the appointment of Anglicanism's first openly gay bishop.

His comments are fresh evidence of the divisions within the Church of England over the issues and will exacerbate the difficulties facing the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, in maintaining unity...

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