Since there have been several extremely detailed and devastating independent reports shining light into Catholic dioceses where clerical sex abuse was not only rife but in the main covered up.
But in what must be a bitter pill for Archbishop Williams, most dioceses of the Church of England are turning down the covenant; in other words, they are signalling they do not think it worth giving up their liberal ideas for the sake of keeping the global Communion together.
The dioceses are urgently exploring ways of preventing the church going broke.
The issue that has led them to renounce their own national leadership is homosexuality; some of the minority of Anglicans (or Episcopalians) who object to gay bishops in American dioceses are aligning with conservatives in Africa.The most influential is Archbishop Peter Akinola, who leads the 17m-strong Anglican church in Nigeria, as well as his new congregants in Virginia.
According to figures from the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board over the past decade, state and local authorities have issued municipal bonds for the benefit of at least 50 dioceses in almost 30 states to pay for the expansion and renovation of facilities that would previously have been largely paid for through donations.
Mr Jackson points out that other dioceses, such as Wakefield, have seen the same happen.
Some dioceses, especially in Africa, will break, or downgrade, their links with the North American Anglicans.
Press reports revealed that, in many dioceses, such behaviour among priests was viewed as an internal disciplinary matter, to be hushed up and certainly not to be reported to the secular authorities.
Eight dioceses, most recently Milwaukee, have filed for bankruptcy because they have been besieged with lawsuits related to sexual abuse.Cardinal Rigali has invited the faithful to join him in Philadelphia's cathedral on March 11th for a penitential service.
The title was later extended to the most senior priests in the city's parish churches and the bishops of the seven dioceses around Rome.
But poorer, less well-insured dioceses are in a fix.
