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Article: Jefferts Schori urges restraint.(News)(Katharine Jefferts Schori)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- March 20, 2007
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PLEADING FOR patience from her church's restive majority, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori urged the Episcopal Church to refrain from ordaining gay bishops and blessing same-sex unions "for a season," so it can contribute further to the drafting of a covenant among the world's 77 million Anglicans.
"If we want to be part of the writing of a covenant, we have some expectations before us," Jefferts Schori said during a live Webcast from New York on February 28. She took questions from a studio audience, as well as by e-mail and telephone, during the hour-long event.
A number of gay and lesbian Episcopalians questioned Jefferts Schori about how ...