Vatican cancels Anglican talks over homosexual "bishop"
Top-level talks between the Roman Catholic Church and Anglicans collapsed yesterday due to the U.S. Episcopal Church's consecration of the world's first openly homosexual bishop last month.
The Vatican, which teaches that homosexual acts are "intrinsically evil," announced it was canceling a February meeting in Seattle of the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, a 2-year-old ecumenical organization.
Instead of talks on unity, the Vatican did agree to a new committee to "reflect jointly" on the implications of the Nov. 2 consecration of V. Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire.
The decision was reached in meetings Nov. 24 and 25 at the Vatican that included Frank Griswold, the Episcopal Church's presiding bishop, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams....