"Furthermore, the annual publication of figures logging the Church's decline just humiliates the Church and all the 65 plus aged parishioners who still fill the pews and who will be dead in a decade or so and with it the Church and diocese. We need to take a leaf out of the Anglican Church of Canada, which hasn't disclosed figures in years about their average Sunday attendance.

VOL: This is not about hatred unless Welby is prepared to admit that the hatred, animosity and name calling is coming from liberals and revisionists against the orthodox. The lawsuits for properties is an example of ecclesiastical hatred couched in the language of episcobabbble about saving the churches for God's mission in the world -- whatever the blazes that means. It has nothing to do with the saving love of God in Christ to redeem a fallen world.

"It's far from clear that ACNA yet manifests these qualities of an ecumenical partner. Its repentance is, according to its constitution, limited to 'things done and left undone that have contributed to or tolerated the rise of false teaching' in the Anglican churches from which it has chosen to walk apart.

"We give thanks to Almighty God for His providence," said the Right Reverend J. Alberto Morales, OSB, ninth Bishop of Quincy. "Our work remains the same as it ever has been, though -- to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. We trust in Him to provide everything else we need as we seek to make Jesus Christ known throughout this portion of the Kingdom."

This is a major setback and a slap at the Dennis Canon with the court now ruling in favor of "Neutral Principles".