{"id":15188,"date":"2009-09-26T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T20:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ens-ecclesiastical_trial_court_denies_bishops_request_for_dismissal_of_cha\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T20:00:44","slug":"ens-ecclesiastical_trial_court_denies_bishops_request_for_dismissal_of_cha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15188","title":{"rendered":"ENS&#8211;Ecclesiastical trial court denies bishop&#39;s request for dismissal of charges or new trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An ecclesiastical trial court has refused to dismiss charges against Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison or grant him a new trial on those charges.<\/p>\n<p>In a September 24 decision released to the public the next day, the church&#8217;s Court for the Trial of a Bishop said that &#8220;the newly discovered evidence is not material to the evidence on which the court concluded that [Bennison] failed to respond appropriately once he knew that his brother had sexually abused a minor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s diocesan standing committee issued a short statement September 25 outlining the decision and saying &#8220;we continue to keep in our prayers all who have been affected by this trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopal-life.org\/81803_115020_ENG_HTM.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ecclesiastical trial court has refused to dismiss charges against Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison or grant him a new trial on those charges. In a September 24 decision released to the public the next day, the church&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15188\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,372,376,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}