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Draft covenant improves
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Anglican Journal
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September 1, 2008
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Mississauga, Ont.
The second draft of the proposed international Anglican covenant shows "a significant improvement" from the previous one although there are still some areas that require "greater clarity," the Anglican Communion Working Group told members of the Council of General Synod (CoGS) at its May meeting.
"It is clear that provinces were heard, concerns about confessionalism were allayed, there were serious efforts to address the central role of worship and prayer in holding us together," Bishop George Bruce of Ontario, who chairs the working group, told CoGS in his report. "Almost all the Canadian concerns were addressed in this draft."
The new draft, called the St. Andrew's ...