That the Global South primates have won a kind of victory is a step in the right direction, but only a step in a long journey. Many of us in Continuing churches know that this is approximately forty years later than it should have been. We know also that the Archbishop of Canterbury, then Donald Coggan, would have made all things better by recognizing the Denver Consecrations in 1978. The presence of ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach at the primates meeting this past week is good in one sense, but it also drives home the propaganda that we need to resist; namely that only now has a genuine Anglican alternative to TEC arisen. That notion has been presented only in an implied sense, but it is strongly implied at our expense, though it has never been true at all.So OK, the main guy consecrated in Denver was James Mote. He in turn consecrated Louis Falk and then fairly quickly withdrew from active involvement in the "continuing" movement, leaving things as they developed to Falk and Falk's adversaries. Falk in turn consecrated -- well, let's look at just some on the list, Robin Connors, Stephen Strawn, Brian Marsh -- a disreputable bunch indeed. I recently heard from a conservative-leaning former TEC priest who basically said there were grounds for complaint against the US-Canadian Ordinariate and for that matter, the ACA -- and in comparison, the very liberal TEC Bishop of Los Angeles J Jon Bruno actually comes off well.
But then, I've heard from former members of the St Mary of the Angels parish who, while they have good wishes for it, chose to remain Episcopalian. Frankly, there are only two real options for Episcopalians. Either become Catholic, but considering the overall disappointment in the Ordinariates, probably not via Anglicanorum coetibus, or remain Episcopalian. A distant option might be, if an Episcopal parish is not convenient but an ACNA parish is, the ACNA.
Those who go with any "continuing" denomination are submitting themselves to charlatans and thieves.
