Regarding the article, "Anglican Mission in America Gaining Support" [TLC, Sept. 24], Bishop Charles Duvall of the Central Gulf Coast indicated in a pastoral letter to his diocese that he intended to recommend that the clergy of his diocese who had joined the Episcopal Church of Rwanda be inhibited "due to their abandonment of the communion of this church." Is not the Episcopal Church of Rwanda in communion with the Episcopal Church in the United States? These clergy have not resigned their orders nor joined another communion. I wonder, on what grounds does he conclude that they have abandoned the communion of this church? To my understanding, those clergy who affiliate with African churches do so precisely because they do not want to abandon the Anglican Communion.

(The Rev.) David M. Baumann, SSC

Placentia, Calif.