'Curia' Model Would Be Disastrous, Welsh Primate Says
10/11/2006

The Most Rev. Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, has endorsed the Archbishop of Canterbury’s call for an Anglican Covenant, but said any attempt to impose a “curia” on the Communion would be “disastrous.”

Archbishop Morgan, a member of the primates’ standing committee and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’ four-person covenant advisory panel, told the Church in Wales synod held at University College of Wales, Lampeter, recently that he endorsed a covenant that would set “out our mutual inter-dependence” as Anglicans.

However, the “kind of covenant that some people want–-a kind of prescriptive one, setting up an inter-provincial constitution that would set out theological boundaries and perimeters for individual provinces in both belief and behavior, policed by a central curia of the primates or Archbishop of Canterbury--would cut at the root of the Anglican Communion as it has been traditionally understood with, to my mind, disastrous consequences,” he said. the rest