![Archdeacon Michael Thompson, the church’s general secretary, decided not to make the documents available, saying, “We have not developed a policy about how a not-public document becomes accessible to the press.”](https://i0.wp.com/anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/McFishoPhoto-620x410.jpg?fit=620%2C410&ssl=1)
Anglican Journal denied access to CoGS documents
Documents that traditionally have been made available to Anglican Journal staff were withheld from them at the March 10-13 meeting of Council of General Synod (CoGS), the church’s governing body between General Synods.