It's Wednesday Night: Do you know where Kenneth Kearon is?
Turns out he's in the Philippines (kinda of a happening place of late)
attending the Provincial Synod of the Episcopal Church in the
Philippines (ECP), which is a province in the Anglican Communion. The
ECP began as a missionary diocese of the The Episcopal Church (TEC) in
the country of the Philippines in 1965. In 1990 with five diocese, the
missionary diocese became a Province in the Anglican Communion.
The missionary diocese was created even though the Philippine
Independent Church was in full communion with The Episcopal Church
starting in 1960. Fascinating, no?
According to a blogger in the Philippines, Kenneth Kearon is also in
the Philippines to attend the National Council meeting of the
Philippine Independent Church (PIC) as well. It's rather interesting
that both are in the Anglican Communion and both pretty much cover the
same territory. The PIC originally split off from the Roman Catholic
Church before being recognized as a member of the Anglican Communion.
But both structures are in the same country, just through different
doors. And The Episcopal Church came in and started their missionary
diocese even though the PIC was all ready there. Interesting indeed.
Here's another interesting tidbit about the Philippine Independent
Church:
In 1928 an open battle erupted within the Philippine Independent
Church over the doctrine of the divinity of Christ and other
traditional doctrines, which was to result a decade later in a major
split in the movement. Severando Castro, the Aglipayan bishop of
Ilocos, and five other founding members of the Philippine Independent
Church publicly protested the unitarian doctrine that de los Reyes and
Aglipay (leaders in the PIC) had introduced, without the approval of
the Supreme Council of Bishops. They asserted that the rank-and-file
Aglipayans (which members of the PIC were often called) held to the
traditional teachings and that the new doctrines were contrary to the
faith. In April 1938 a group known as the Trinitarians, under the
leader****p of Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr., broke away. After the death
of Aglipay both the Unitarian and Trinitarian groups maintained that
they were the true Philippine Independent Church. Finally in 1955 the
courts awarded the right to the name and possession of Aglipayan
church property to the Trinitarian faction.
Interesting, isn't it?
In 1961 the PIC entered into a Concordant of Full Communion with the
Philippine Episcopal Church of the United States which later became
Episcopal Church in the Philippines, now a province in the Anglican
Communion. The PIC is much older than the ECP (it was born after the
1898 revolution against Spain) and also much larger. They cover the
same geographic territory, but they are separate structures. The
Archbishop of Canterbury recognizes the bishops in both the ECP and
the PIC. The PIC began as a breakaway from the Roman Catholic Church
in the late 19th century and the ECP was started by the Americans
sixty years after that.
Interesting, isn't it?
And there's Kenneth Kearon.
It's always interesting to see where he'll pop up next, isn't it?
Renato Aguila, the blogger in the Philippines had breakfast with
Kenneth Kearon where he says Canon Kearon told him that "not attending
Lambeth says more about the bishops in question than it does about the
Conference itself." Now that's an interesting spin. We think it has a
lot more to do with the Secretary in question and what sort of network
he's trying to put together. What do you think?
Here's what he told the folks at Virginia Theological Seminary last
month: "In order for the Anglican Communion to change its position on
these issues (blessing of same *** unions and the consecration of non-
celibate gays and lesbians), they must be worked through the system
properly. The process should begin at local synods and be taken up at
conventions, then you begin to work it up through the church." No
wonder the Canon takes interest in certain synods, especially ones so
heavily influenced by the Americans.
Alas, we haven't found Canon Kearon popping up in Northern Nigeria or
Northern Uganda for breakfast. Wonder why?
He doesn't seem to understand that the people are resisting the
innovations of the West, much as the PCI resisted the challenge of
unitarian theology.
So he pops up in the Philippines instead. Oddly, there's nothing at
the Anglican Communion website that tells us that he's there. In fact,
mum's the word. Shhh. The laity are sleeping.
One does wonder where he'll pop up next.
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