A former American bishop, who quit the Episcopal Church for the Roman Catholic Church in 2007, has been restored to the ordained ministry of the Episcopal Church.
However, the method used to restore the Rt Rev Daniel Herzog of Albany does not conform to church law, legal scholars note, and was accomplished by a questionable canonical legerdemain that leaves his current status in doubt.
Regret link is to subscription page not to news report.
Well, I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the “canonical legerdemain” wasn’t on Rome’s part. So that leaves the usual suspects making up the usual reasons to avoid the canons for abandonement of communion when it actually happened. Ho hum. Another day of supposed non-fundamentalist-literality with the brains not left at the door…………
#2, I suggest there is a lot easier answer to why Bishop Herzog returned to the Episcopal Church. That is that however troubled your own family might be, it feels a lot more like home than adjusting to someone else’s family and its own issues and difficulties. I give thanks for Dan Herzog, his grace, his courage, and his generosity
That he returned is blaring obvious. That he abandoned the communion of the Episcopal church is blaringly and glaringly obvious and public knowledge. That he returned to a dysfunctional neurotic and delusional organization is a media reality. It’s the legerdemain about canons -like pretending to have them or that they matter or that they have rational content or if they really are window dressing for “a thoroughly nasty business concern” – that is at question.
Also, should a bishop who has “abandoned the communion of this church” publicaly, physically, emotionally, and canonically be allowed to bishop? Even if he is as you say?
“a comin’ through the rye” et alia.
“….does not conform to Church law.”
You’re kidding, right?!! This is TEC we’re talking about.