CAPE TOWN: Anglo-Catholic Priest Defrocked for Whistle Blowing Gay Activities
CAPE TOWN: Anglo-Catholic Priest Defrocked Following Tribunal for Whistle Blowing Gay Activities
Anglican Priest Tells Story of Decades of Homosexual Abuse, Cover-Up at Highest Levels of the Church
A Virtueonline Exclusive
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 18, 2011
A priest with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa has been defrocked by his bishop, Merwyn Castle, on the recommendation of an ecclesiastical tribunal because he brought "the church into scandal and disrepute". He did this by questioning the sexual standards of his church and bringing to light multiple cases of homosexual abuse by priests with young men going back to the 70s. Castle is the bishop of the Diocese of False Bay. The tribunal was chaired by Peter Lee, Bishop of the Diocese of Christ the King, near Johannesburg in Gauteng province.
The Rev. Clifford Felix, 55, an Anglo-Catholic, married with two children says there has been decades of sexual abuse in Anglican dioceses in Southern Africa. In 1975, a man whom he later learned was a priest abused him. "I wanted his name. I saw no future without forgiveness."
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Anglican Priest Tells Story of Decades of Homosexual Abuse, Cover-Up at Highest Levels of the Church
A Virtueonline Exclusive
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
February 18, 2011
A priest with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa has been defrocked by his bishop, Merwyn Castle, on the recommendation of an ecclesiastical tribunal because he brought "the church into scandal and disrepute". He did this by questioning the sexual standards of his church and bringing to light multiple cases of homosexual abuse by priests with young men going back to the 70s. Castle is the bishop of the Diocese of False Bay. The tribunal was chaired by Peter Lee, Bishop of the Diocese of Christ the King, near Johannesburg in Gauteng province.The Rev. Clifford Felix, 55, an Anglo-Catholic, married with two children says there has been decades of sexual abuse in Anglican dioceses in Southern Africa. In 1975, a man whom he later learned was a priest abused him. "I wanted his name. I saw no future without forgiveness."
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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