What would our founding father do

At a time when fake priests are finding their way into the Vatican itself and taking confessions, Rome offered its opinion on the Anglican Church's move to ordain female bishops, a proposal that still has to pass through England's parliament. Concerned that it might the upset the millennia-old boys club tradition that has worked out so well, it declared that it would not bode well for Catholic-Anglican reconciliation. This is progress as the Anglicans first moved to approve women as ministers in 1992. The Anglican Church will still need to draw up a 'code of practice' and the first female bishops won't take office before 2014. This comes at a time when not only is the question being raised about what Jesus would have done, but also what did he do? A stone tablet dating from the era of his ministry suggests that the idea of a messiah rising from the dead after three days, and the coming of apocalypses, were very much in the collective imagination of the day and may have been used by the disciples to deal with the Crucifixion. Like in the case of that other sacred document, the U.S. Constitution, it is less important what the founding father, or fathers, would have done than what we choose to do with what they passed on to us. That at least would be authentic.