The article also alleges that he and other clergy participated in sexual orgies in churches, occasionally while wearing religious vestments, with Pereira and another Brazilian, Wasticlinio Barros. Williams is a close friend of the Bishop at the time of the scandal and had to resign his job at the Episcopal Church Center.

Liberal churches with large groups of orthodox believers which are leaving and taking their money with them are causing headaches for liberal priests who are calling Florida Bishop Samuel Johnson Howard complaining, asking him how they can stop the hemorrhaging, the slow bleeding of both people and money.

The Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold phoned the orthodox Anglo-Catholic bishop and told him the news personally and said that there had been a misapplication of canon law and he, (Schofield) had not abandoned the communion. Charges had been brought against the bishop based on the use of Canon IV.9 (Abandonment of Communion).

That, of course is more easily said than done.

In a video interview Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan made it clear further meetings were redundant and that there would be no more of them. An unbridgeable "chasm" could not be closed by further talk. Clarity had been obtained once and for all.