The national Executive Council will decide whether the Episcopal Church will send official representatives to the June 21-29 session of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) during a special meeting April 13 at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Ill. A recent communiqué from the primates of the Anglican Communion asked the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada to withdraw voluntarily its representatives to give the rest a chance to assess the recent innovations to historic teaching on sexual morality that highest legislative branches of those two provinces recently enacted.

The House of Bishops declared after its March 11-16 meeting at Camp Allen in Texas that only Executive Council could legally advise the ACC representatives from the Episcopal Church not to register as delegates. Regardless of council’s decision, the Rt. Rev. John Paterson of New Zealand, chairman of the ACC, has already announced that time will be set aside for the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada to explain the rationale behind their recent legislative decisions on homosexuality at the ACC meeting in Nottingham, England. In their communiqué the primates also requested this addition to the ACC legislative calendar.