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An Interview with the Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome
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Rome?s concern highlights importance of Gospel message of unity
Some in the Anglican Communion may have found themselves a little irritated by the amount of rhetoric that has issued from the Vatican in recent weeks on the divisions facing the church. The Anglican Representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Holy See, the Very Revd David Richardson, says that instead, the concerns of the Roman Catholic Church should be taken as a very positive reminder that the unity of the church is God?s will.
While the Pope was in Australia celebrating World Youth Day, he urged the Anglican Church to dulles expo centre avoid schism, and Cardinal Dias warned in his address to the Lambeth Conference about the what is centre george pompidou dangers of disunity to evangelism.
?My take on it at this stage,? says Revd Richardson, ?is that there is a lot of investment from the Roman Catholic Church in the Anglican Church cohering, for a whole range of reasons ? the last thing they want to see is canadian ecology centre a church structurally jamaican canadian centre split.? Schism, from the point of view of the Roman Catholic Church was therefore, he said, ?a really much more serious issue than the discipline or moral theological issues with which we?re wrestling.?
That?s not to say that the Vatican is not concerned with the issues of women bishops or homosexuality (although the latter may be more of a priority for the press golden mile shopping centre regina than for Rome or indeed kids cheerleading centre county pa the entire Anglican Communion).
?Ecumenical processes never run smoothly, and life moves on,? thompson centre Revd Richardson says. ?While you?re writing a report, at the end of it you find that something different has taken place. It may be that women have been ordained or a Pope has died, or an Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned. We?re an evolving institution.?
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?What is the faith? Is the apostolic faith design centre something that was parcelled up and completed at Chalcedon or is it something that is still emerging? That is a theological question that is part of the wrestle. That?s an exiting thing that the two parties are committed to continuing.?
Being Director of the Anglican Centre entails more than exploring the minutiae of ecumenical relationships however, and it is a very different sort of job than his previous role as austin texas civic centre Dean of St Paul?s Cathedral, Melbourne, Australia.
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While he had more staff to take care of things in Melbourne to do some of the more mundane tasks, he says, ?I suppose a great deal of what I?m taking into my role is stuff that I learned accidentally in Melbourne. christian life centre ajax I hope in some sense Melbourne matured me, high leigh conference centre and helped me to look for other interpretations, explanations, and nuances, than the one that immediately hits you in the face. And so brant medical centre burlington ontario I suppose [I?ve gained] a level austin street centre of theological caterpillar montreal technical centre reflection, of being able to talk to people, get beside people, and understand where they?ve coming from.?
?What am I bringing to the role? I think I?m bringing me, who for nearly a sixth of my life was formed kingsway community life centre by being Dean of Melbourne.?
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