Letter chides bishop
PA Wellington Bishop Edward Norman, leader of the Anglicans in the Wellington Diocese, has been publicly criticised by 17 of his clergy and 15 laity, for comments he made about the National Council of Churches. Last month, in his regular diocesan letter, Bishop Norman charged the N.C.C. with keeping open wounds from the Springbok tour by asking member churches to contribute to a fund to help meet the legal costs and fines of
tour protesters. Upset at Bishop Norman’s comments, the 17 clergy and 15 laity have responded with a letter in the diocesan newspaper, “Diolog,” saying his association of protesters with acts of “wickedness and vice,” is unwarranted. “What concerns us is that the bishop's letter does not appear to acknowledge the integrity of many in the Church who opposed the tour for conscientious reasons and it is in this integrity we wish to affirm,” the letter said.
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