The six present themselves as uniquely trained to identify "the most important factor in any scrutiny. . .together with. . . the elimination of wrong, irrelevant, or improperly formulated issues. If the issues are identified correctly, then all else can and should follow to the proper result" (page 3). The authors identify the issue as the issue of the violation of "an unwritten and unenforceable but clearly recognized anciently respected Anglican Constitution." (page 8).

And, further, who would have thought that this planting of new networks, dioceses and convocations by different Provinces actually in practice sets supposed "brother" against "brother" in the competition for sheep and converts in North America, for there is no agreed areas for mission by the sending Provinces and it appears to be a free for all?

It was a movement which put principles into action but which rejected violence; a sort of "'soul force' whose central principle was that our behaviour must witness to truth whatever the cost - and that this witness to truth can never, of its very nature, involve violence or a response to oppression that simply mirrors what has been done by the oppressor."

Virtually no one thinks the church will comply. Even Williams, who will address the House of Bishops of the Episcopal church later this month when it meets in New Orleans to decide its position, and who will then find it harder to avert open schism.