The Very Rev. Canon David Richardson, dean emeritus of Melbourne and honorary provincial canon of Canterbury, is the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See.
By David Richardson
What the Covenant has to offer the churches of the Communion is an instrument of unity and mission which, in good Anglican fashion, steers a middle path between centralism and juridical structures on the one hand and unfettered license and mutual irresponsibility on the other. But it does more.
