Posted by jimB on 11/14/2008, 10:28 am, in reply to "Re: Quincy redux"
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Kelley,
I cannot answer for the church. I think that the leadership actually believes it is the conservator of assets that belong to the future church.
If we don't do something soon however, there wont be a future. We are loosing members left and right. Bp. Ackerman took over a diocese that was small (about 7,000 members) and the convention that voted itself out represented 1,000 ASA and a membership of 2,000.
On the canon, so far, it has been upheld, including at least one case before SCOTUS. The case involving the retiring bishop of Washington and a Maryland parish was up on cert and the parish lost. Given that the Court hates to reconsider or reverse its actions, that suggests the canon will survive challenge.
I thought then and I think now that winning cases and loosing peopple is at best a loosing proposition. But I suspect that the church will prevail for what ever that gets us.
FWIW
jimB
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