CNC, women bishops, and LLF
on Wednesday, 4 September 2024 at 10.07 am by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as Church of England, General Synod
Andrew Goddard has written a detailed discussion on this subject, which includes
- a short history of recent developments in relation to CNC,
- a short guide to its processes relevant to understanding these outcomes, and then
- reflections on the failures to appoint particularly with reference to claims being made that relate this to wider debates concerning women bishops and Living in Love and Faith (LLF)
- discussion of the place of church teaching in the appointment of bishops
- concluding thoughts on where we are and what happens next
There is a précis of this article here: Is the Church in an episcopal stalemate? But I recommend reading the full article.
I cannot be the only one who wishes that we could just go back to the system where the Prime Minister advised the King to appoint a sound person. It worked terribly well and anyone who says it didn’t is kidding themselves.
I guess these days you’d have a new problem of getting Sir Keir to pay attention to the workings of the CofE. Like that episode of Yes Prime Minister, except the actor playing the PM hasn’t showed up for shooting because he’s in The Thick of It.
There no doubt is a better system than what we’ve got at the moment, but depending on the PM doesn’t feel like the move in 2024.
One only has to look a list of appointments (and failures to appoint) since the changes were made to come to the same conclusion.