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• Anglicans start landmark summit on gay priests | The clerics were whisked into London's Lambeth Palace through a back door without speaking to the media (Reuters)
  
  
• Church in need of a savior | Williams has played his cards close to his chest but hopes that a rebuke to the US and Canadian churches will be enough to mollify critics, possibly with a study group to examine an issue over which the Anglican communion has agonised for years. But that may not be enough any more (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Anglicans gather to confront historic rift | Leaders meet Wednesday to address church direction on gay issues (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Anglicans working to avert church split | U.S. stance on gay issues spurs dispute (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Gay schism threatens Lambeth summit | More than half those at today's summit are thought to believe the appointment of Canon Robinson was wrong and should be revoked before his consecration next month (Financial Times)
  
  

What Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams might do:

• Williams gambles to heal division over gays | To placate the conservatives, who are threatening a mass walkout, he will uphold the Church's traditional ban on gay marriages and the ordination of active homosexuals, despite his more liberal private views on the issue. But Dr Williams will resist pressure to expel the liberal American Episcopal Church over its decision to appoint Anglicanism's first openly active homosexual bishop (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Archbishop of Canterbury to take hard line on gay clergy at summit | He is prepared to reiterate the church's official view reached five years ago that homosexuality is "incompatible with scripture" (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Williams reignites row over gay bishop | Williams is expected to tell Church leaders that the impending consecration of Canon Gene Robinson is in breach of the Church's position on homosexuality (The Observer, London)
  
  

Divisions among the Anglican leaders:

• Hardline archbishops gather on eve of summit | More than half of the worldwide Church's 38 primates and a large group of traditionalist American bishops are planning to gather at All Souls, Langham Place, an evangelical church in London (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Gay issue splits world bishops | Leaders from the worldwide Anglican communion have clashed over the ordination of gay bishops ahead of this week's Church summit (BBC)
  
  
• Archbishop calls for commission to probe gay clergy crisis | Archbishop of Capetown said he "hoped and prayed" the Church would adopt a more liberal attitude as it had towards women clergy and slavery (PA, U.K.)
  
  
• 'Time for study on gay clergy' | Former Bishop of Edinburgh Richard Holloway today urged Anglican Church leaders to set up a royal commission-style study into the issue of gay clergy (Edinburgh Evening News)
  
  

Orthodox Anglicans:

• US millionaire bankrolls crusade against gay Anglican priests | America's religious right draws a line in the sand as Anglican primates meet in London (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Conservative Episcopalians ready showdown | Conservatives say that two months of lobbying has amassed the support of 23 of the 38 primates for their plans to sanction the Episcopal Church in the United States (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Episcopal conservatives threaten to split church (Religion News Service)
  
  
• Homosexual debate reaching crisis levels | It has become what Episcopal Diocese of Quincy Bishop Keith Ackerman calls the "presenting issue" of whether the ECUSA has "exceeded its authority" by putting a noncelibate homosexual man into a bishop's office (Peoria Journal Star, Ill.)
  
  

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