Duncan said, “The Anglican Relief and Development fund is an exciting new partnership between the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes with the Anglican Churches in the Global South, and with Geneva Global. The love of Christ for all of His people and all of His creation calls us well nourished Episcopalians in peaceful and relatively prosperous North America to help our Anglican brothers and sisters to help themselves.”

In reality, however, Holy Cross (which broke ground for a building on Sept. 19) was born in pain and recrimination. Last January, Beach, then the beloved pastor at St. Alban's Episcopal Church in nearby Monroe, Ga., shocked the members of his congregation by telling them that after 12 years as their spiritual leader, he was leaving not only them but also their denomination, the Episcopal Church U.S.A.

Dr Williams went so far as to suggest the new network be called the "confessing" network. This was taken by those at the meeting as a reference to the "Confessing Christian" movement that stood for the orthodox faith in Germany at a time when the official Christian bodies were being manipulated by the Nazis.

But after a closed door meeting here of the 2.3-million-member denomination's House of Bishops, Bruno said he had decided to wait until mid-October before deciding whether to press charges against Benitez.

The date is important because Oct. 18 is when an international panel is scheduled to make public its recommendations on the future status of the Episcopal Church in the worldwide Anglican Communion. The Episcopal church is the U.S. arm of Anglicanism.