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\"\"<\/a> Comparing the Anglican Communion to Humpty Dumpty has many apposite connections. First of all, it\u2019s a bloated, pompous old thing. Secondly it is famous for sitting on the fence (or in Humpty\u2019s case\u2013the wall) on every matter. Never a right or a wrong. Always a way to compromise: that\u2019s Anglicanism.<\/p>\n

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Last summer Humpty the Dumpty had a great fall. And now, apparently all the king\u2019s horses and all the king\u2019s men (or the queen anyway) are trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again. <\/div>\n
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They think by some sort of administrative structure they can maintain the communion.<\/div>\n

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Ruth Gledhill reports on some of the intrique here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Damian Thompson reports on the new proposals. This is lifted from his blog: See if you can understand any of it. Does anybody know whether this is serious or not?<\/p>\n

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the proposals are tied to an intricate scale of \u201cdegrees of communion\u201d \u2013 full, impaired, partial and broken \u2013 that will ascribed to different provinces by a Lambeth Communion Review Commission, which will itself be multi-layered, supervising Review Sub-Committees based on the Indaba model that will ascribe State of Communion Assessments to individual dioceses, non-territorial episcopal oversight areas and parishes. It would, of course, be inappropriate for the same Review Sub-Committees to cross the boundary between inner and outer circles of the Anglican Communion, and so \u2013 in a radical proposal drafted by Dr Rowan Williams himself \u2013 the Lambeth Communion Review Commission will divide into inner and outer circle Areas of Special Responsibility that will shadow each other\u2019s assessments.
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The obvious snag here is that non-territorial oversight could be compromised by this process of shadowing, so the Review Commission will create what are, in effect, \u201cepiscopal no-fly zones\u201d covering provinces in partial \u2013 but not impaired or broken \u2013 communion with Lambeth. Meanwhile, a Lambeth Communion Appeals Tribunal will be set up to negotiate boundary disputes between provinces (and, in exceptional circumstances, parishes) which receive alternative oversight within the inner circle. Boundary disputes within the outer circle will be referred to an independent tribunal accountable to the main Commission, except where the degree of impairment is sufficiently grave to qualify for a special appeal to those Primates of the Anglican Communion who have signed up to the original covenant.<\/em><\/div>\n
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What?<\/div>\n
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In the meantime, remember the Traditional Anglican Communion\u2019s letter to the Vatican last year this time? We\u2019re still waiting for a reply on this.<\/div>\n

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Maybe in the midst of all the Anglican Agonies a line will be thrown from the barque of Peter. I feel in my bones that the Vatican might just announce something positive about the Anglican situation quite soon.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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