Hearing Addresses Sexual Abuse by Laity
Hearing: The Episcopal Church needs hold offenders accountable for sexual misconduct, including situations involving parishioners.
Website Helps Explain Title IV
Title IV is confusing, poorly organized, internally inconsistent, and riddled with clauses such as “acts which are alleged to violate Canon IV.3.1(a) or to constitute a breach of Canon IV.4.1(b), (c), (e) or (h)(2).”
Executive Council Considers Title IV
Council members beta-tested an impressive new website that promises to make the subject more transparent.
St. James the Resurrected
Bishop John H. Taylor: “We are inviting everyone in our diocese to come home to a new sense of belonging, of being at home with one another in the diocesan family.”
St. James the Mission?
No significant opposition has met the idea of recognizing St. James the Great as a mission.
Budget Priority: Evangelism
In response to “a clarion call” of comments on the proposed budget that was posted in November, the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church added more than $1.8 million to the church’s planned spending for evangelism.
A Sustained, Meticulous, Devastating Picture
“While the order [suspending Bp. Bruno] is not final, it’s public. There’s no way to unring a bell.”
Bruno Sanctions Stand
“Respondent’s actions undermined what the canons intend to be a process of reconciliation.”
PB Places Church Sale in Limbo
Presiding Bishop Curry forbids sale of St. James the Great until Bishop J. Jon Bruno’s trial has concluded.
Dueling Motions in Bruno Case
Bishop J. Jon Bruno and the prosecution have responded to sanctions on selling St. James the Great in Newport Beach.