Is there an Anglican Communion?

What is a "communion of churches?" Does the organization known as the Anglican Communion still qualify to use the word? Until about 2007, there were any number of difficulties within the Communion, brought about primarily by the Episcopal Church in the US and the Anglican Church of Canada deciding to break the Vincentian canon on issues of sexuality. In 2007, the Primates of the Communion met to determine a course of action, and this course was announced to the world in a communique, and subsequent press conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. A process was laid out to assure adequate episcopal oversight for those in the US and Canadian Churches unable to abide the changes the leadership of those two churches had instituted, in other words, provisions were made for those who maintained the faith as it had been held- everywhere, always, and by the whole Church. Additionally, a series of steps were recommended to reconcile the US and Canadian churches with the other Churches of the Communion.

And then, well, the plan was dropped. Never formally, or officially, no second vote was taken. The Archbishop of Canterbury just stopped the process dead in its tracks. TEC and ACoC went on their way, deposing a dozen bishops, including one from the Church of England, and hundreds of priests, and in the process, breaking communion with tens of thousands of laity, hundreds of parishes and 4 entire dioceses. To this day, those tens of thousands remain out of direct communion with either the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Church of England.

Meanwhile, at the macro level, many of the churches of the Communion are not in communion with each other. A priest from TEC can no longer (with the rare exception of those who can demonstrate that they have resisted the TEC innovations) transfer to Nigeria, and a Nigerian bishop visiting the US would not receive communion in the majority of the dioceses or churches. If there is to be no communion, what is the point of the Anglican Communion?

The silence and inaction have gone on too long. It is time for difficult choices to be made, if any communion, or Communion, is to be preserved in the Anglican world.