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Article: The high price of togetherness; The Anglican Communion.(Lambeth conference )
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 9, 2008
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Shoulder to shoulder--with just about everyone
The bishops got on fine for a while--but was it only a holiday romance?
BY ITS own unusual lights, the Lambeth conference of Anglican bishops was a great success. Its self-imposed task was to avoid any nasty rows between 650 purple-clad gentlemen (and a few purple-clad ladies) who hold widely diverging views on issues which they see as matters of principle, not detail. And a "surprising level of sheer willingness to stay together" was finally reported, on August 3rd, by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury--after nearly three weeks of well-choreographed confraternity in which participants took no ...