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Anglican Catholics and the legacy of the 1970s
From the Revd Maggie Guillebaud Convener of Affirming Catholicism, Salisbury diocese The Dovecote, Mount Sorrel Broad Chalke Salisbury SP5 5HQ From the Revd John Grover Sir, — Back in the early 1970s, the General Synod made the decision that there was no theological objection to the ordination of women. All people who have been ordained since that date will have known that the Church in which they felt called to minister was going to accept women as priests and deacons, and inevitably as bishops, too. How is it that they now find such actions unacceptable? I notice that both the Bishops of Richborough and Ebbsfleet (Letters, 25 July) were ordained well after the decision about the acceptability of women’s ordination. Did they not know what kind of Church they belonged to? Were they not told that they would be working alongside women in the Church? It seems unlikely that those who trained them in theological college were unaware of the change that had taken place, or perhaps they were simply naïve or blind to what had happened. At any rate, it seems that those ordained after the original decision in the 1970s don’t have a leg to stand on in the present debate. JOHN GROVER 5 The Stables Buccleuch Chase St Boswells TD6 0HE From the Revd Andrew Wakefield Sir, — Having trained at King’s, London, in the 1970s, I would place myself within the liberal tradition of the Church of England. I am at a loss to see how those of other traditions are able to describe the Church of England as taken over by a liberal agenda. Recent conversation with clergy friends who trained alongside me shows that many of us believe that the progress of the Church in so many areas of our common life from the 1940s through the 1980s has been slowed in the past few years, and, if anything, started to go in reverse. ANDREW D. WAKEFIELD 105 Hartfield Road London SW19 3TJ |
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