Primate urges unity, witness
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40170
- Author
- Forget, Andre
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 January
- Author
- Forget, Andre
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2017 January
- Volume
- 143
- Issue
- 1
- Page
- 1, 10
- Notes
- "In a wide-ranging address, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, opened Council of General Synod's (CoGS) first meeting of the 2016-2017 [sic] triennium [in November 2016] by encouraging members to see their church's social justice work as grounds for unity. 'There is so much more that unites us than divides us', he said, noting the broad support that exists in the church for anti-poverty work and refugee sponsorship. 'In this is our strength, in that is our hope'. It was the first meeting of the council since the tense and emotional General Synod in July [2016], when a controversial motion to allow priests to perform weddings for same-sex couples passed its first reading. Following the announcement that the vote had passed, several General Synod members, unhappy with the result, walked out of synod. Eight bishops later signed an open letter expressing their 'public dissent' from the decision" (p. 1). "Hiltz closed his address by telling the council about his recent trip to Rome, where he received a Lampedusa cross, made from the wreckage of refugee boats that washed up on the shores of the Italian island of Lampedusa, in the southern Mediterranean. Hiltz, who said he now takes the cross with him everywhere he travels, held it up as an example of the challenges the church needs to address" (p. 10). "Several CoGS members [including Katie Puxley, Melanie Delva and the Rev. Vincent Solomon] who spoke to the 'Anglican Journal' expressed relief at the less stressful tone of the council meeting, compared to the tensions of last summer's General Synod" (p. 10).
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. Council of General Synod - Meetings
- Hiltz, Fred (Frederick James), 1953-
- Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Conflict management - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Lampedusa Cross
- Social justice - Anglican Church of Canada
- Delva, Melanie
- Puxley, Katie
- Solomon, Vincent