The members of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania’s Standing Committee have asked the leaders of the House of Bishops for their “support and assistance in constructing a way to go forward in this diocese and to secure Bishop [Charles] Bennison’s retirement or resignation.”
Bennison resumed his role as diocesan bishop Aug. 16, some 11 days after the church’s Court of Review for the Trial of a Bishop overturned a lower church court’s finding that he ought to be deposed (removed) from ordained ministry because he had engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the clergy. The review court agreed with one of the lower court’s two findings of misconduct, but said that Bennison could not be deposed because the charge was barred by the church’s statute of limitations….
God indeed has a sense of irony, wot?
Can’t they just zero out his salary and benefits?
Don’t pay him.
Shun him. Treat him as if he’s not there.
Are there any orthodox left in the diocese of Pennsylvania after Bennison worked so hard to “inclusively” exclude them? If not, I say let the diocese and Bennison enjoy each other for as long as possible.
Someone needs to buy the members of the Standing Committee copies of the film version of “A Man for All Seasons” for their edification.
Apparently Fr Matis thinks that he’s a latter day William Roper…