Why We Exist
Forward in Faith is a worldwide association of Anglicans who are unable in conscience to accept the ordination of women as priests or as bishops.
Forward in Faith is opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate for three simple reasons.
First, it is a practice contrary to the scriptures as they have been consistently interpreted by the two thousand year tradition of the churches of both East and West.
Second, we hold that the ordination of women by individual provinces of the Anglican Communion, without inter-provincial agreement or consensus, is a schismatic act, impairing communion between provinces by subverting the interchangeability and mutual recognition of orders between them.
Third, mindful of the unity for which Our Lord prayed on the night before he died, we are bound to repudiate an action which has willfully placed a new and serious obstacle in the way of reconciliation and full visible unity between Anglicans and the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
Stephen Webb wrote:
Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen in the media today over Anglican wrangles re homosexuality
He mentioned the Uniting Church on the ABC
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/01/1064988272592.html
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2003/s958302.htm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1002/p12s02-lire.html?entryBottomStory
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