Thursday, December 31, 2009

Archbishop of Canterbury Warns "Crises Don't Stop at National Frontiers"

In his new year message today, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, lists terrorism, war, national disaster, and the financial collapse as being among the disasters that have bedevilled the past decade, according to the Times Online website.

"Before we shrug our shoulders and lower our expectations, let's not lose sight of one enormous lesson we can learn from the last decade," he said. "The needs of our neighbors are the needs of the whole human family."

The Archbishop's own Church, the Anglican Communion, has also suffered its share of problems in the past decade, precipitated by the consecration of the gay bishop Gene Robinson in New Hampshire in 2003; however, the new year message is addressed to a wider society.

Dr. Williams emphasized that "crises don't stop at national frontiers. It's one thing that terrorism and environmental challenge and epidemic disease have taught us."

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