Monday 19 February 2007

Williams 'going cool on gay issues' over union with Rome

The ongoing row over gays in the Anglican church took a new turn today with the revelation that senior church figures are considering submitting to the authority of the Pope.

A commission set up in 2000 to consider ways of re-uniting the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches is due to report later this year.

The Times newspaper published extracts of the report today, and it includes the proposal that the Anglican church should work towards recognising the Pope as head of the church.

While the concept of a reunification of the Western churches under one patriarch has been discussed for decades, the present anti-gay stance of Pope Benedict XVI has alarmed gay Anglicans.

Commenting on the leaked report, Fr Martin Reynolds, a spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, told PinkNews.co.uk:

"It is not good news, because the present Pope is conducting a worldwide war against gay marriage.

"There is evidence to suggest that Rowan (Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury) is going cool on gay issues." Read more

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