Patrick J Marker wrote to Abbot Gregory Polan here including this:
*** During our first telephone conversation, on Monday, April 25, 2011, you shared the following information:
1) You heard something about Bede’s 1981 misconduct at St. John’s “at the time of the incident”.
2) You were aware of an incident involving Bede Parry with a member of the abbey’s choir in the summer of 1987.
3) Bede Parry was sent to New Mexico soon after the 1987 incident.
4) When Bede Parry tried to enter another monastery, he took psychological tests that showed a “proclivity toward sexual misconduct with minors.”
5) You called Parry’s boss at an ambulance company and a woman bishop with the Episcopal Church with the information.
6) You identified the woman bishop as Katharine Jefferts Schori.
7) You told Katharine Jefferts Schori not only about the allegations [plural] against Bede, but also of Bede’s attempt to join another monastery, the psychological testing and his “proclivity”.
8 ) That Katharine Jefferts Schori, despite your revelations, “allowed him to continue to work.”
Read it all carefully.
[blockquote] In our last conversation, you said that you had to trust your conscience. I find it hard to believe that your conscience is telling you to stonewall.[/blockquote]
Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.
What prevents AS Haley from bringing charges before the Intake Officer? I mean that sincerely.
#2,
Canon IV.6:
[blockquote]Information concerning Offenses may be submitted to the Intake Officer in any manner and in any form….
Any person other than the Intake Officer who receives information regarding an Offense shall promptly forward the information to the Intake Officer. [/blockquote]
This is a canonical duty for all clergy. For laity it is permissive, but not mandatory.
Then it should be done…..immediately.
I know. Let’s get Dorsey Henderson on the case. Right away.
Thanks, Wildfire. Perhaps ACI clerics can file charges. It sounds like it is our duty as clergy.
Hmmm……perhaps we’re starting something here……..
Ya think?
In light of the seriousness of the allegations regarding her conduct in the case of Bede Parry when KJS was the Ordinary of Nevada, is she not [b]obligated[/b] – as Presideing Bishop – to inhibit/restrict herself, in accordance with the “new and improved” Title IV canons?
Perhaps, in the immortal words of Jeremiah Wright, “the chickens [i]are[/i] coming home to roost.”
I suspect it wouldn’t hurt to write the gentleman running the Conception Abuse blog and indicate what the procedures are. All one must do is write the Intake Officer, Bishop Clay Matthews. Coming from Mr Marker, this would be a serious concern.
9. And one of ’em just laid an egg with this latest revelation.