tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post116828726002324247..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: Breaking news from Windsor Panel of Reference: Priestly vocations of Ft. Worth women have no worthElizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-1168321370710500092007-01-09T00:42:00.000-05:002007-01-09T00:42:00.000-05:00Anger does not even touch what I am feeling tonigh...Anger does not even touch what I am feeling tonight - I think we have moved into <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid's_Tale" REL="nofollow">A Handmaid's Tale.</A>Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287169546184325690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-1168317181848026802007-01-08T23:33:00.000-05:002007-01-08T23:33:00.000-05:00I heart sick at the panel's statement. What a hor...I heart sick at the panel's statement. What a horrible slap at the wonderful, powerful ministries of excellent clergy. <BR/><BR/>The first Lambeth council was called, or so I have read, at the suggestion of Canadian and American bishops. Arguably, we made it, time to admit the error. <BR/><BR/>If the choice is between the ministry of our clerics and making troglodytes happy -- it is time to move on.<BR/><BR/>FWIW<BR/>jimBJimBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17312606954135884910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-1168307331762728372007-01-08T20:48:00.000-05:002007-01-08T20:48:00.000-05:00This makes me sick at heart.Ugh.If this is the pri...This makes me sick at heart.<BR/><BR/>Ugh.<BR/><BR/>If this is the price of staying in the communion - I hope we opt out.episcopalifemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18092579249862725163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-1168292544768173142007-01-08T16:42:00.000-05:002007-01-08T16:42:00.000-05:00Thanks for this analysis, Elizabeth. And I'm impre...Thanks for this analysis, Elizabeth. And I'm impressed at the restraint you've exercised in this very calm posting. I'm stuck somewhere between fury and a chilling sense of dread. <BR/><BR/>What's that we used to hear about "autonomous provinces"? If the Panel of Reference has the power to direct the polity and policy of the Episcopal Church, then there's not much hope for the Anglican Communion.Lisa Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00881671380217888810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-1168291928601151412007-01-08T16:32:00.000-05:002007-01-08T16:32:00.000-05:00I have long felt that until we sort out women's or...I have long felt that until we sort out women's ordination, and this proclamation from the Panel of Reference indicates that we haven't, we're not even close to tackling the orientation question. <BR/><BR/>Mon Dieu, is it taking long for patriarchy to die! How long can this institution keep gasping and fighting back?Caminantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16610142955176992982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-1168289066925337472007-01-08T15:44:00.000-05:002007-01-08T15:44:00.000-05:00This is quite obviously a foreign interpretation o...This is quite obviously a foreign interpretation of our canons and consitutions. The canons and consitution, by the way, of a province that is represented by a Presiding Bishop who happens to be a woman. Where in God's name are these people coming from to make that kind of judgment about something they absolutely do not know? They have crossed the line of interference by interpreting our canons with absolutely no legal right to do such interpretation.<BR/><BR/>I can only wonder, then, if Little Napoleon over there in Ft. Worth were brought up on charges of violating our canons, would the Panel of Reference trump the judicial bodies and the polity of the Episcopal Church? <BR/><BR/>I think this is worth considering.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15359869605366846107noreply@blogger.com