The Archbishop of York, Dr David Hope, the Church's most senior
traditionalist, used the foreword to the new 250-page report to urge the
Church to delay consecrating women bishops.

Another leading traditionalist, the Bishop of Fulham, the Rt Rev John
Broadhurst, said: "The choice facing us all is stark: are we to engage upon an endless war of attrition which harms the gospel or do we have the generosity and charity to give each other the space we need."

"This is a big deal. There is a lot involved in this," said the Rev. Mark Rutenbar, president of the standing committee of the diocese. "The cathedral is a symbol of the diocese. Unfortunately, there is weak support for it as a building."

Diocesan offices, as well as a small Episcopal congregation, are currently located in the cathedral. Members of the congregation -- the Parish Church of Christ the King at the Cathedral of Christ the King -- say they oppose selling the building.

There are two parts to the responses. First, the demurrer states that even if the allegations in the lawsuits were true, the churches’ actions were not illegal. The demurrer claims that the lawsuits by the diocese are legally defective because they fail to state facts sufficient to constitute legal causes of action.

Dr Nazir-Ali was answering questions after addressing the Assembly on “Shaping a confused Church”. In the current crisis, discipline was required because people had departed from the unchanging scripture. “In our own situation, any discipline that is enforced must be about maintaining fellowship between Churches.”

It was not the sinner that was the object of condemnation, but the church leaders who had “actively encouraged sin”.