Mark McCall

ACC-14: Did the Clauses on Section 4 Ever Pass?

Much of the criticism of the Anglican Consultative Council's deliberations concerning the Anglican Communion Covenant has centered on control of the resolutions committee by those opposed to a covenant with real accountability, confusing and inadequately explained procedures during the debate and intervention by the Archbishop of Canterbury said to have had the effect of diminishing chances for adoption of the intact Ridley Cambridge draft.   As forceful as those criticisms may be, there is still more to the story.   The bottom line is that it appears the deliberative process did not produc