“Just wanted to apprise you that the Anglican Schism already occurred long ago. I’m not being flip. It in fact occurred. This, after the Lambeth Conference back in 1978 which gave the green light to the ordaining of women as priests. Ever since then, a veritable slew of parishes, formerly “high-church” parishes, pulled out of ECUSA (Episcopal Church USA), creating several orthodox Anglican “communions” outside the See of Canterbury, or the “official” Anglican Communion. The problem, however, is that once the over-arching communion is broken, the new orthodox communion(s) brought forth as rivals continue the process of fisuring — but doing so amongst themselves — such that there exist several Anglo-Catholic all claiming to be the communion truly “Anglican” and orthodox. And as my orthodox Roman Catholic friend assures me, this is the nature of all heresies — they keep fisuring until they go out of existence, leaving the rock of St. Peter standing, having weathered the storm — as it always has for two thousand years.” – more unconventional wisdom on the Letters Page.
THE SILVER LINING: From Afghanistan. You won’t read this in the NYT.
BUSH AND GOVERNMENT: He’s no conservative in a small government sense. Spending billions we don’t have, piling on regulations, burdening businesses, Bush is turning into a Nixon in domestic economic policy. He will regret it. So will we.
The Dish 