There are many who are relieved that formal action has been finally taken against Charles Bennison. Hopefully his self serving leadership- known for building a camp at the expense of poorer parishes, financial mismanagement, dishonest communication and the mocking classical Christian doctrine- will come to an end. However, one cannot count Bennison out, not yet. He has given every indication that he thinks he can beat these charges. He may be right.

This will be a great celebration in many ways. It will provide CANA and the Church of Nigeria with additional bishops to minister to the growing flock of Anglican Christians in CANA who are part of the growing orthodox realignment within the larger communion. A second way this celebration is significant is that these consecrations will be (by permission of His Grace Peter J.

At its outset and for more than a century and into the Twentieth Century, property rights in American Anglicanism were not vested in higher ecclesial bodies, such as a diocese or the national church. The first serious challenge to this foundational polity did not come until the Civil War and that precedent served to confirm that the local parish was still the basic unit of the American Episcopal church and that the local parish was the owner of its property and buildings.

Apart from Pope Benedict and a few others, most of the addressees are Eastern church leaders. This is to be welcomed but the letter does not mention the harassment, persecution and murder which Christians are experiencing in so many Muslim lands today. It does not refer to the need for a common commitment to fundamental freedoms of thought, expression, belief and changing one's belief.