{"id":20710,"date":"2010-07-12T00:37:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/episcopal_church_former_erie_bishop_abused_girls\/"},"modified":"2010-07-12T00:37:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T00:37:30","slug":"episcopal_church_former_erie_bishop_abused_girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20710","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal church: Former Erie bishop abused girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania sexually abused at least four girls while he was leader of the Erie-based diocese.<\/p>\n<p> The abuse by the Rev. Donald Davis was made public today by the diocese&#8217;s current bishop, the Right Rev. Sean Rowe, who learned of the abuse earlier this year from one of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our first goal is to tell the truth,&#8221; Rowe told the Erie Times-News today.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, who was bishop of the diocese from 1974 to 1991, died in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>In a pastoral letter read today after services in each of the 13-county diocese&#8217;s 34 churches, Rowe apologized for what Davis did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100711\/NEWS02\/307119880\/-1\/RSS\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania sexually abused at least four girls while he was leader of the Erie-based diocese. The abuse by the Rev. Donald Davis was made public today by the diocese&#8217;s current bishop,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20710\">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":[36,39,101,66,168,177,112,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710","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=20710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}