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To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
Thanks for an interesting post. I do note a few things:

1) Many of these are not Episcopalian priests

2) Many of these do not involve children

3) Many of these are not homosexual liasons,

and most importantly,

4) Episcopalians get the cops involved, and only a couple of these have indications that higher church officials tried to hush up the incidents and then move the offender off to another parish.

It is gratifying to see a great deal of secular law enforcement involved in these, which we have not up to this point seen in the RCC incidents.

Oh, and I'm not clear on how all of this refutes the initial posting you were responding to, which was Episcopal crimes generally include embezzlement and adultery, not child sexual abuse (although it does rarely occur.). Seems to me that if you cull out of this listing all the incidents that don't involve Episcopal priests and children, you are left with fewer than a dozen cases over the last 15 or 20 years. Given the 1000's of Episcopal parishes in the USA, I'd have to say that the assertion made was not contradicted.

52 posted on 01/06/2003 8:49:58 AM PST by RonF
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To: RonF
You aren't clear on a lot of things.

"We would be naïve and dishonest were we to say this is a Roman Catholic problem and has nothing to do with us because we have married and female priests in our church. Sin and abusive behavior know no ecclesial or other boundaries."

Rt. Rev. William Persell, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, Good Friday Sermon, 2002.

66 posted on 01/06/2003 4:56:42 PM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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