The Panel was created by Dr Williams after the February 2005 Primates' Meeting in Northern Ireland to offer mediation and guidance to "certain parishes" that "have been unwilling to accept the direct oversight of their diocesan bishops" for reasons of conscience. However, the Panel process has already drawn criticism from the Primates of the Anglican Communion for its dilatory pace.

Or maybe you don't. After all, it has not been in the news recently, and not only because Hussein is shutting out the journalists. Fashion matters and today the fashion is to ignore genocide. Quite rightly, the crimes of American, British, European and Israeli democracy are dissected and denounced.

All of us in the Communion will be making this same journey in the weeks ahead - the journey to the places of our weakness, so that we may encounter the strength and life of God. For a relatively short spell, we are asked to look within to find the roots of the world's disaster, not to search for them outside, in the other and the unbeliever.

Privitera is currently serving at St. John the Evangelist. Its rector, Rev. Garth Bulmer, proposed the motion that General Synod 2004 passed "to recognize the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same-sex unions." Privitera herself gave the Gay Pride Day sermon at the church in 2003.

In ministry for 20 years, Privitera was formerly the rector of the Church of Christ the Saviour in Arlington, Massachusetts and has blessed same-sex unions for over a decade.