Presiding Bishop on Occupy(ing Churches)
“As long as we understand our primary mission as preserving buildings, maybe we ought to welcome being tossed out.”
“As long as we understand our primary mission as preserving buildings, maybe we ought to welcome being tossed out.”
“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.
The story is one person’s recounting of a conversation he had with a second person in which the second person allegedly recounted a conversation he had with Bishop Jefferts Schori in which he allegedly informed her of Parry’s past. In a courtroom, this sort of information is hearsay, and inadmissible. In a newsroom, it is a lead—a darn good one, but still only a lead.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preaches Sept. 18 at Catedral de El Señor in Quito, Ecuador, on the fourth day of the House of Bishops’
Here is something you don’t see every day. Or, for that matter, any day. A writer from the National Review liked the 9/11 sermon that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori gave yesterday at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
“When we can love our enemies enough to see a different possibility, our own hearts have indeed begun to heal – and God’s kingdom is coming.”
The Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Revs. Margaret Rose, associate director for mission, and Petero Sabune, Africa partnerships officer, have been visiting the Democratic
The lawsuit, filed against Conception Abbey by an Oregon man, claims that Bede Parry, a Benedictine monk, molested the plaintiff in the early 1980s when the plaintiff was a minor.
As a moral matter, if the church has done wrong by victims of sexual abuse, we need to repent and make amends. And as a practical matter, it will go better for us if we confess our own sins than if we have the investigative reporters who take Bishop Marshall up on his offer confess them for us.
The Bishop of Nevada has issued a statement about the case of the Rev. Bede Parry, but questions remain unanswered surrounding the Presiding Bishop’s knowledge of the sexual-abuse history of a man she ordained while bishop of Nevada.