Primates 'should follow Dromantine consensus'

This is clear. The present crisis is no longer on ECUSA's non-compliance. They have chosen to walk apart at GC2006. The Primates should simply follow up their earlier consensus at Dromantine. The spotlight is now on Canterbury. The present Primates' Meeting is about his ability - and with this Church of England's historic role - to lead the Communion. Is Archbishop Rowan Williams prepared to transform himself from a don whose horizons stayed in the trans-Atlantic, to turn his gaze to the Communion worldwide? To ponder, as some commentators did, that Canterbury can resign and return to (idyllic) academic life after Lambeth 2008 is nonsense. Those who have taken up the mantle and journeyed afar is no longer be at ease with the "old dispensation", as T S Eliot put it in the Journey of the Magi. There is no return for Canterbury as he takes up his office. This is the cost of discipleship. Read more