Saturday, September 16, 2006

Rebel bishop foresees split in church
LAPEER CITY
THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION
Saturday, September 16, 2006
By George Jaksa

Matthew's Anglican Church here expects a separate division of the worldwide Anglican Church will be established in the United States before the end of the year.

The move would formally separate a growing number of U.S. churches from the Episcopal Church USA, over the boiling issues of homosexuality and the ordination of women and openly gay priests.
"The leadership (the Episcopal Church USA) have elected are going one way - it's not the way the Anglican Communion is going," said Bishop Frank Lyons, an American who heads the Anglican Church of Bolivia, in communion - or relationship - with the Church of England.
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