PHILADELPHIA, PA: Pickets at Episcopal offices: "Don't reinstate bishop"
PHILADELPHIA, PA: Pickets at Episcopal offices: Bishop's reinstatement brings demonstration
By David O'Reilly
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/
August 11, 2010
Members of a sex-abuse victim support group picketed the headquarters of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Tuesday to protest the reinstatement of Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr., who had been suspended nearly three years for concealing his brother's sexual abuse of a minor.
"It's heartbreaking that he has been returned on a technicality," said Karen Polisir, president of the Philadelphia area chapter of the Survivors' Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP). She was joined by two SNAP members from Lancaster County who were abused as youths by Roman Catholic priests.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David O'Reilly
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/
August 11, 2010
Members of a sex-abuse victim support group picketed the headquarters of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Tuesday to protest the reinstatement of Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr., who had been suspended nearly three years for concealing his brother's sexual abuse of a minor.
"It's heartbreaking that he has been returned on a technicality," said Karen Polisir, president of the Philadelphia area chapter of the Survivors' Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP). She was joined by two SNAP members from Lancaster County who were abused as youths by Roman Catholic priests.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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