{"id":22018,"date":"2010-09-24T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_embattled_philadelphia_episcopal_bishop_says_he_wont_resign\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:55:21","slug":"rns_embattled_philadelphia_episcopal_bishop_says_he_wont_resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22018","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Embattled Philadelphia Episcopal bishop says he won&#39;t resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The embattled Episcopal bishop of Philadelphia is defiantly refusing to resign, saying his three years of &#8220;suffering&#8221; through various church trials has &#8220;strengthened&#8221; his ability to lead his diocese.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Charles Bennison was removed from ministry in 2007 after being charged with &#8220;conduct unbecoming a member of the clergy.&#8221; He was found guilty in 2008 for failing to investigate or discipline his younger brother and former fellow priest John Bennison for an affair with an underage parishioner in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>He was reinstated as bishop in August after a church appeals court ruled the statute of limitations on the charge had expired.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/RNS-Embattled-Philadelphia-bishop-says-he-wont-resign.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embattled Episcopal bishop of Philadelphia is defiantly refusing to resign, saying his three years of &#8220;suffering&#8221; through various church trials has &#8220;strengthened&#8221; his ability to lead his diocese. Bishop Charles Bennison was removed from ministry in 2007 after being<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22018\">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-22018","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\/22018","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=22018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}