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March 24 2006
PENNSYLVANIA: Standing Committee Passes Last Minute Resolution aimed at Bennison
They took the actions, they said, because these assets will be needed to reimburse certain funds improperly spent from the St. Matthew's Fund, Jerusalem Fund, St. Andrew's Fund, Diocesan Reserve Fund and Zion Fund.
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March 24 2006
PENNSYLVANIA: The "Black" Sins of Bishop Charles E. Bennison
Fr. Smart, 66, suffered a brain seizure recently after Bennison unilaterally announced he was merging two parishes St. Mary's and St. Paul's both in Chester. "What he was really doing was forcing Fr. Smart and Fr.
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March 23 2006
PENNSYLVANIA: Concerned Episcopalians Rip Bishop Bennison
"It seems ironic if not disingenuous to receive a letter in the convention packet which contains comments, allegations and innuendo over the signature of Bishop Bennison which is in direct contradiction to previous public statements regarding what would be the agenda at convention," they wrote."
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March 22 2006
PENNSYLVANIA: Bennison, Do the Right Thing: Resign
And so now we have a three ring circus. The Standing Committee has its own website (linked off of the Diocesan website) to counter the spin from Bennison, with their own lawyer. Then there is the new diocesan chancellor Francis Helminiski. Bill Bullitt (former chancellor) is working voluntarily with the new chancellor on transitional matters but beyond that is contributing to the general diocesan dialogue strictly as an active member of the diocese, VirtueOnline was told.
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March 21 2006
MICHIGAN: "My God is Mother" Billboard Incenses Orthodox Episcopal Clergy
The billboard, by its appearance and content so outraged Fr. Steven J. Kelly, SSC, rector of St. John's that he contacted diocesan headquarters and complained bitterly to the bishop. "God is NOT mother!" he told Bishop Wendell N. Gibbs Jr.
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March 19 2006
SOUTH CAROLINA: Offer Made for All Saints, Pawleys Island Rejected
The real question is how Salmon and the Diocese can justify paying for another appeal when two circuit court judges and the attorney general are on record upholding the trust.
"How many churches in the diocese would approve of spending more money to beat this dead horse? Where is the money going to come from?"
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March 16 2006
PENNSYLVANIA: The Bishop in the Bunker
In an interview Bennison bizarrely at first insisted the report recommended a reconciliation process. "They do recommend a process of reconciliation and remediation," he declared. "It's a process I continue to hope everyone will engage with and I continue to hope for remediation."
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March 14 2006
PENNSYLVANIA: End in Sight for Bishop Charles E. Bennison
The Report also accused Bennison of using the Pennsylvania Episcopalian for "false advertising" saying that there was a year long process of reconciliation when in fact there was none at all. In an unprecedented move the Standing Committee developed its own website because of "false advertising" on the Diocesan website.
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March 14 2006
THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION
Little, who recently gave an interview to Christianity Today, "Living with the Tares" and why he was staying in the ECUSA did not mention even once the possibility of church discipline as an overriding principle prescribed by New Testament writers. He has also publicly endorsed local experiments in same-sex blessing rites, describing them as "within the bonds of our common life," saying it would help him meet pastoral needs.
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March 09 2006
ORTHODOX COALITION FORCES GROW WORLDWIDE
Anyone watching the church universal from the bleachers could not but conclude that major seismic shifts are taking place that will see new formations emerge in the 21st Century, formations that we have not seen since the Reformation of the 16th Century.
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