{"id":2585,"date":"2008-07-07T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/church-of-england-to-have-female-bishops\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T21:45:00","slug":"church-of-england-to-have-female-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/church-of-england-to-have-female-bishops.html","title":{"rendered":"Church of England to Have Female Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Church of England General Synod has voted to have women bishops, and surprising to me, it has also voted not to provide formal safeguards for Anglo Catholic traditionalists who are opposed. Instead there will be an unwritten \u2018code of practice\u2019 to minister to opponents of the innovation. The Daily Telegraph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2265423\/Tears-as-women-bishops-split-looms.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports here.<\/a>\u00a0Damian Thompson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/damian_thompson\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">comments here, <\/a>saying the Church of England has, at last, confirmed that it is a Liberal Protestant Church, not part of the ancient Catholic Church.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My only\u00a0disagreement\u00a0with Damian is his headline, \u201cThe Church of England is Protestant again.\u201d I disagree with the word \u2018again.\u2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">UPDATE: George Pitcher <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2008\/07\/08\/do0807.xml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">writes here<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"> on how nasty the debate in General Synod was.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Fr Ray reports the Vatican\u2019s<a href=\"http:\/\/marymagdalen.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/vatican-regrets-synod-vote.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> response here.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England General Synod has voted to have women bishops, and surprising to me, it has also voted not to provide formal safeguards for Anglo Catholic traditionalists who are opposed. 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The Daily Telegraph reports here.\u00a0Damian Thompson comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Church of England to Have Female Bishops<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Church of England General Synod has voted to have women bishops, and surprising to me, it has also voted not to provide formal safeguards for Anglo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/church-of-england-to-have-female-bishops.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Church of England to Have Female Bishops\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Church of England General Synod has voted to have women bishops, and surprising to me, it has also voted not to provide formal safeguards for Anglo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/church-of-england-to-have-female-bishops.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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