Pope Leo XIV: no matter what decisions are made at any level in the church they can be wiped out by the stroke of his pen. Photograph: Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times
In a recent interview with the UK Catholic weekly The Tablet, former bishop and head of the Episcopal Church in Scotland Richard Holloway spoke of his resignation after attending the Lambeth Conference of 1998. He is no longer even a practising member of his church, having lost faith in the institution.
The Lambeth Conference is an event which happens in the worldwide Anglican Communion approximately every ten years. The 1998 Conference was particularly significant as it was preoccupied by the question of homosexuality and whether people who are gay could be ordained.
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