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Article: Preparing for worst in wake of women priests. (Church of England) (Column)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 14, 1993
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The recent flap over "dissident Anglicans" has generated as much disinformation as information. Take the former bishop of London, Graham Leonard, 71. Ever since the Nov. 11 synod vote approving women priests, he has been negotiating "terms" with the Catholic bishops and hinting that some form
of Uniate church or personal prelacy might be the solution.
Now that both these suggestions have been turned down, Leonard would have us believe that he never seriously envisaged them and that what he wanted has come to pass. Cardinal Basil Hume has, he makes it appear, taken his sagacious advice.
This is designed to mask the truth that there are no serious ...