Suspended Episcopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. will get his last chance to make a case for reinstatement as head of the Diocese of Pennsylvania when he goes before a church appeals court in May.
In September 2008, a lower church court found Bennison guilty on two counts of failing to respond adequately when, as a new rector decades ago, he learned that his younger brother was having sexual relations with a minor.
John Bennison had been youth minister at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Upland, Calif. The abuse began when the girl, a member of the parish, was 14.
[blockquote]uspended Episcopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. will get his last chance to make a case for reinstatement[/blockquote]
UNLIKE all the faithful bishops who were uncanonically summarily deposed being denied any of the due process supposedly guaranteed by the Canons.
Groucho Marks used to say: “I would never want to belong to any club who would have someone like me for a member.”
TEC itself is NOT itself THE Church. Take heart.
Why would Chuck Bennison WANT to be part of an organization which he (for some reason) thinks did him such an ‘injustice’ (as he understands it)? It won’t affect his pension rights, and his so-called career is definitively over. Why doesn’t he just turn his back on the whole mess and make a new life?
Perhaps Mr. B should just “Go in peace to love and serve“