Letter to the editor: Alarming statement

Notes: "While our bishops have every right to meet in private to share fellowship and pastoral care, when they are acting in an official capacity as the House of Bishops, they should do so in the open. I am alarmed by the statement that came from their October [2010] meeting in Montreal that it is their 'consensus that the media should attend our meetings only when invited'. About the only media consistently interested in what anyone in the Anglican Church of Canada does these days is the church's own media. To exclude them is to keep official episcopal deliberations from Anglicans. This violates the co-operative nature of governance that we expect in our church". [Text of entire article.]

Subjects: Anglican Church of Canada. House of Bishops - Meetings; Church and the press - Anglican Church of Canada; Anglican Journal; Transparency; Anglican Church of Canada - Government