Letter to the editor: 'Actions speaker louder than words'

Notes: "'Shocked and saddened' is an understated response to the provincial House of Bishops' arbitrary decision regarding of the Rev. Jake Worley, the duly-elected bishop of Caledonia ('Caledonia accepts ruling', Sept. 2017, p. 1). Worley's sin was to oppose liberal orthodoxy in another province of the Anglican Communion. The bishops object to the idea that 'a priest of one church of the Anglican Communion [should] exercise priestly ministry in the geographical jurisdiction of a second church .. without the permission of that second church'. One can only wonder if the bishops would take such a draconian position against a priest who had blessed same-sex unions in violation of canon law". "Christ's message is one of humility, tolerance and forgiveness. Sadly, the Anglican Church of Canada has dismissed these values to make way for ideological conformity".

Subjects: Worley, Jake (Jacob Christopher Dodd), 1969-; Anglican Church of Canada. Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon. House of Bishops; Anglican Church of Canada. Diocese of Caledonia - Bishops; Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion; Anglican Communion - Parties and movements - 21st century