LONDON, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The British head of a global Anglican panel that tried to heal a rift between liberals and traditionalists doesn't expect any party to face discipline.
Archbishop Robin Eames of Ireland warned that the Communion's conservative provinces, largely concentrated in the Third World, should not expect calls to be answered for the U.S. church, known as the Episcopalian Church, or a progressive Canadian diocese to be punished.
Scores of Third World bishops are demanding punishment for Episcopalian leaders over their consecration of a practicing homosexual as bishop and Canada's New Westminster diocese for "blessing" same-sex unions.
"I think we need to move on in terms of what have we learned from this," Eames wrote in Friday's issue of the Church of England newsletter. "I'm a great believer in trying to learn the lessons of these things. I think we must move on."
Eames' panel recently completed a report that seeks reconciliation among Anglicans. It called on North American liberals to apologize for antagonizing others -- but not for endorsing homosexuality -- and urged Third World bishops to stop meddling in progressive, North American dioceses.
Leaders of the Anglican communion's more than 70 million members meet in February to consider the Eames report.
