{"id":658238,"date":"2010-02-08T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11734"},"modified":"2010-02-08T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T22:12:59","slug":"church-of-england-at-loggerheads-over-women-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658238","title":{"rendered":"Church of England at loggerheads over women bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England said on Monday it would go ahead with installing women as bishops, but a delay in draft legislation has left liberals and traditionalists alike uncertain about how the plan will work in practice.<\/p>\n<p>Together with homosexual bishops and same-sex marriages, the ordination of women is among the most divisive issues facing the Anglican Communion, which has 77 million members worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11735\" title=\"ANGLICAN-GAYS\/SCHORI\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/02\/schori.jpg?resize=393%2C600\" alt=\"ANGLICAN-GAYS\/SCHORI\" width=\"393\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Church leaders at the General Synod, or parliament, were due to discuss women bishops at a week-long meeting in London this week, but the Revision Committee, assigned to draft legislation, failed to meet the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The committee, which is struggling to accommodate liberals who demand equality and traditionalists who want to keep an all-male senior clergy, will present draft proposals in time for the next Synod in July, in York, northern England.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole post <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKTRE61740320100208\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(PHOTO: Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of the U.S. Episcopal Church\/REUTERS\/Siphiwe Sibeko)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England said on Monday it would go ahead with installing women as bishops, but a delay in draft legislation has left liberals and traditionalists alike uncertain about how the plan will work in practice. Together with homosexual bishops and same-sex marriages, the ordination of women is among the most divisive issues facing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LeK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}