PHILADELPHIA: Bishop's return puts church in a quandary
PHILADELPHIA: Bishop's return puts church in a quandary
By David O'Reilly
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20100919_Bishop_s_return_puts_church_in_a_quandary.html
Sept. 19, 2010
The pews were filling at Boothwyn's Trinity Episcopal Church last Sunday when the rector and vicar found themselves in a quandary.
Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. was making his first parish visit in the Diocese of Pennsylvania since 2007, when he was suspended for ignoring his brother's sex abuse of a teen girl decades ago. Acquitted by a church appeals court over the summer, he was back in charge.
Minutes before Bennison was to process into the sanctuary, the two priests lugged the oak bishop's chair across the chancel and placed it at the bottom of the altar steps.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By David O'Reilly
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20100919_Bishop_s_return_puts_church_in_a_quandary.html
Sept. 19, 2010
The pews were filling at Boothwyn's Trinity Episcopal Church last Sunday when the rector and vicar found themselves in a quandary.
Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. was making his first parish visit in the Diocese of Pennsylvania since 2007, when he was suspended for ignoring his brother's sex abuse of a teen girl decades ago. Acquitted by a church appeals court over the summer, he was back in charge.
Minutes before Bennison was to process into the sanctuary, the two priests lugged the oak bishop's chair across the chancel and placed it at the bottom of the altar steps.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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