By contrast, Dr. Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, a mere 61, announced his retirement in March 2012 to take effect at the end of the year, some nine years before mandated. He will take up an academic post as Master of Magdalene College. The normal retirement age for Church of England bishops is 70.

It is now open warfare in The Episcopal Church with some of the harshest language ever uttered from the lips of an ecclesiastical leader. Not even the venal and hateful John Shelby Spong, former Bishop of Newark, who tried his best to reinvent Christianity in his own mind, degenerated to the depths of the recent rip by PB Jefferts Schori. As history now shows, it is Duncan's star that is in the ascendency while Spong's has faded. In time, his will die out completely.

Keep the talk all sweetness and light, inviting those who did not cross the road with them to come back by warm invitation into the bosom of TEC...a bosom overflowing with largess and luminosity, but with fewer dollars. After all she is going to need several million dollars to finance lawsuits against Lawrence and his diocese, so one might have to contribute to that fund.

The Presiding Bishop came to Charleston to set up a new Episcopal diocese with those Episcopalians who had chosen not to leave The Episcopal Church with Bishop Mark Lawrence following his defection over charges that The Episcopal Church had abandoned the faith of the church especially over Rites for same sex marriage passed at last summer's General Convention. Bishop Lawrence walked out of the convention after the resolution was passed in the House of Bishops.