Anglican/Episcopal Rift Prompts Restructuring Talk

by Stephen Clark
August 5, 2006

Tensions continue to simmer between the worldwide Anglican Communion and its American wing, the Episcopal Church, over the church's embrace of gay clergy and other policies that critics view as overly liberal.
The tensions, already brewing in recent years, began to rise again in June when the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman elected to preside over the entire Episcopal Church, offending some conservatives who do not approve of women as priests or bishops.
from the Los Angeles Times. Read in full at the Anglican Use Society web site.