SHREDITORIAL

Who’s Watching The Watchdogs?

While the world goes its bumpy way, society’s watchdogs are on the prowl. Since what they watch may lend or detract credence from their agendas, it’s interesting to note their choices.

So, while the world literally explodes with enormously compelling issues to command the attentions of any deeply sympathetic person, what do we have?

Here’s a piece of relative irrelevance.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has proposed a process that will force the Episcopal Church USA to decide whether or not having gay bishops and same-sex union ceremonies is worth losing full membership in what he refers to as “the Communion.”

The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion, told a reporter, “Many churches welcome the idea of a covenant, but they didn't particularly welcome the text that was proposed."

Liberals in the US church downplayed the potential for a possible schism, while conservative leaders were elated by the archbishop's proposal. The conservatives, we read, have formed an alliance with prelates in Africa, Asia and Latin America and insist that if the Episcopal Church USA doesn’t get in line with Anglican orthodoxy it should be jettisoned.

Now, doesn’t just reading about respectable and hopefully caring people being taken up with such an issue while the world thunders and wails make you wonder what they’re thinking?

It’s especially consequential here, because the Anglican community is the world’s third largest, which adds up to a great mount of pent-up care and influence that could be applied in all the right places.

Apparently, the concept of a watchdog and the grace of wisdom do not invariably occupy the same mind at the same time.

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