” “While Silvio Ferrari, professor of canon law and director of the Postgraduate course in Comparative Law of Religions at Milan’s University, thinks it is impossible however to put "the Anglican primate’s argument in any other legal context, such as the Italian or French one". During his speech, Williams also spoke of the problems of the forthcoming Lambeth Conference, the meeting of the over eight hundred bishops who represent the Anglican dioceses of the world, due to take place in July, which this year will be boycotted by those dioceses and bishops who are against the ordination of the gay bishop of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson, which took place in 2003. "Some bishops’ decision not to attend the conference said Williams yesterday shows not only that there are deep differences in the theological and ethical areas which have thus impaired our relations", but it also reflects how "strong" some provinces feel about some "actions and positions taken mostly by the Western or Northern Churches", in particular by the Episcopal Church of the United States. The archbishop’s speech ended with a prayer for the Lambeth Conference, "that new ways may be found to restore and deepen confidence in the Communion and in each other, that we may help reconcile those who have somehow felt offended or left out".
