Bishop Schofield recently survived an attempt to oust him by four fellow California bishops on grounds that he had "abandoned communion" but was exonerated by the Title IV Review Committee. He appears set for another fight with the national church.
Read moreSpecifically they charge that on December 22, 2005 Miller summoned the Rev. Martha Ann Englert and two other priests to his diocesan headquarters and interrogated them as part of a personal "investigation". The 16 then filed charges saying that his actions were not in accordance with the Canons of the Episcopal Church and not within his authority under Title IV. They said he should have informed the Standing Committee.
Read more"We are delighted that this is the final ruling and that the courts found in our favor," Rick Crossley, senior warden of the parish told VOL. "This fits with what happened in the Diocese of Los Angeles where three parishes who fought and won their properties from Bishop J Jon Bruno."
Read moreSo when St. Paul says in I Corinthians that "fornicators, adulterers and homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom" we should suspend the law of non contradiction, and trust and hope (and presumably pray) that he is wrong, or that his words can be parsed to make them mean other than what they obviously mean, because Bishop Ohl says so. And then, because we have agreed to disagree we should all approach the Lord's Table as the divine leveler and take Holy Communion together.
Read moreNo flunky worked harder or more tirelessly to promote the American Episcopal Church's pansexual agenda than Canon Peterson, an American working in London, whose reward for years of service rendered, was a plum job as canon for Global Justice and Reconciliation at Washington National Cathedral. He earned it.
Read moreAfter processing through the cathedral Bishop Charles E. Bennison began the service pleading, "I am aware there is a lot of anxiety here...give it to God."
In his sermon, Bennison publicly acknowledged that presentment charges had been filed against him for "mismanaging the diocese" but then publicly denied he had done any wrongdoing, saying, "I have never spent any monies without obtaining the approbation of the requisite governance body."
Read moreVirtueOnline sat down with Baroness Cox when she spoke at the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan in Paoli, Pennsylvania recently.
Read moreThey further charge (under Canon 13.3) that he misappropriated and expended other endowment funds of the Diocese, without canonical authority including unrestricted net assets to the tune of $10 million.
Prior to the Special Convention of March of 2006, Bishop Bennison expended an additional $350,000.00 of unrestricted net assets of the Diocese without canonical authority, the Standing Committee said.
Read moreWhile the statute of limitations has run out for civil prosecution, the ecclesiastical and moral consequences of his acts live on. The long chronology of John Bennison's sexual sins and his brother's complicity in them, erupted with full force this week in Philadelphia when family members, victims of John Bennison came to town to tell their stories.
Read moreLast night at St. George's Episcopal church, members of SNAP and family members of the Rev. John Bennison told their stories of John Bennison's sexual abuse and his brother's cover-up. At that time Glen Matis of the Standing Committee again called on Bennison to resign.
The charges now go before Schori and the national church's Title IV Review Committee for examination.
More news as it unfolds.
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