\u201cI long for a time in our church when there is as much attention and conviction and passion and voice and action from the rooftops about sexual exploitation, about gender-based violence, human trafficking for the sex trade, missing and murdered Indigenous women, pornography, religiously-based violence around the world, our violence against creation itself, and the greed and the reckless consumption that drives it,\u201d said Archbishop Fred Hiltz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The irony in all this is that Hiltz wants to direct the passions of the Anglican Church of Canada towards things over which it has absolutely no influence or control and in which it has no expertise, while at the same time being unable to come to a decision on whether to change its own marriage canon \u2013 something that has been a church speciality for 2000 years.<\/p>\n
A fitting parable of ecclesiastical impotence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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