Saturday, September 27, 2008

The almost deposition of the PB

From VirtueOnline:

In a humorous aside, sources at The Episcopal Church ? Headquarters in
New York said that the Rt. Rev. Katherine Jefferts-Schori, the Presiding
Bishop of The Episcopal Church ?, almost deposed herself. Deposition
prevents a priest from saying Mass and removes their ordination.

Jefferts-Schori, who just this week deposed the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan
for holding traditional Christian views, was preparing 36 other
depositions "as a precaution" and accidentally got the "To:" and "From"
lines mixed up on one of them. "David (Chancellor David Booth-Beers)
can't stop laughing about it," said Jefferts-Schori, "He's been emailing
me all day, inviting me into a deeper relationship with my
spell-checker."

Once the error was discovered, Jefferts-Schori convened an emergency
meeting of the House of Bishops in her office and the deposition was
rejected. Since only Bishops in attendance may cast ballots on
depositions, the 1-0 outcome against the deposition conforms to Church
canons, according to Booth-Beers. It doesn't take much to read between
these lines...

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