Letter to the editor: Let's get representative

Notes: Letter commenting on a photo in the March 2012 issue of the 'Montreal Anglican' with a caption "More than 40 women priests from across Canada attended a service at St. John's Church in Lunenburg, N.S." Dr. Harding writes "All the women priests in the picture were white Anglo-Saxon Canadians. Conspicuous by their absence were visible minority women ordinands to the priesthood in the Anglican Church of Canada. .... What of those sisters, those visible minorities who comprise more than 40 per cent of regular churchgoers ? .... Our primate, in his comments about the residential schools, said, 'Racism is endemic in Canada, even in our churches today as well'. The church has to seriously address this issue if it is to survive. The Anglican church has lost hundreds of its members, particularly those from visible minorities, who have experienced some form of alienation".

Subjects: Racism - Canada; Racism - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada; Minorities - Canada; Minorities - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada