Why them and not us?
Joan Chittister; 17/7/08
The church world got a really good piece of advice this week. The pope, we’re told, warned the Anglicans not to split over their internal controversies about homosexuality and the ordination of women bishops. He warned, quite wisely, about the dangers and the destructiveness of schism. As easy as it sounds to simply go away and play in your own ecclesiastical sandbox, the fact is that divisions are never neat - if for no other reason than that they not only fail to resolve the present problem but they model how not to resolve the next problem, too. After all, if we can fix one issue by simply leaving it, we can do the same with the next one - and there will be a next one - until what was intended to be a nice, clean division becomes one fracture after another, more a splintering and a slivering, than a surgically healing separation of unlike tissues.
See; http://ncrcafe.org/node/2004/print
Tags: Christianity, Homosexuality, Womens Rights