“The psychological evaluation had determined that I had a proclivity to reoffend with minors. Abbot Polan would later share the information with Robert Stoeckig from the Catholic Diocese of Las Vegas, Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori” and others.
If you visit the Café often, you know that the Episcopal Church is giving some thought to revising its governing structures. Since this process began, I have been on the lookout for proposals made by people who aren’t riding the horse of reform down the path of “more power for me!”
Bishop Gene Robinson says that the protestors occupying Wall Street aren’t anti-capitalist. Rather, they are protesting the ways in which the capitalist system is corrupted by the financial industry.
Professionals in the Financial Services sector believe that City bond traders, FTSE Chief Executives and stock brokers are paid too much, teachers are paid too little and that there is too great a gap between rich and poor in the UK, according to a survey carried out by ComRes on behalf of St Paul’s Institute.
The Book of Revelation as a treatise against greed and abuse of power reads like today’s headlines.
In case after case, witnesses to crimes have frozen in place. Their gut may signal that something is wrong, but they do nothing. Maybe they do not act because no one around them is doing so. Maybe they assume that someone else will respond. Maybe they’re stopped by a concern for their own safety.