Category — Bishop Jefforts-Schori

Virtue Online reported that progay bishop Katharine Schori has reached a new low by defending a man who confessed to sexual misconduct with a child. Further evidence that via Schori’s reign of error,  the Episcopal Church USA has become become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast. Rev 18:2

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is defending her decision to allow a former Roman Catholic monk to become an Episcopal priest even after he admitted to sexual misconduct with a minor.

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori has been under increasing pressure to answer charges that she did not properly investigate the Rev. Bede Parry’s past when she was bishop of Nevada in 2004.

She initially brushed off inquiries and then remained silent till this week when, under increasing pressure from VOL and canon law attorney A.S. Haley, she issued a statement arguing that she knew of only one incident when Parry, now 69, sought ordination as an Episcopal priest. She also said that Parry passed a background check and a psychological evaluation before he was ordained.

The condition of his ordination, said Jefferts Schori, was that Parry was to be supervised by another priest and not permitted to work alone with children.

“I made the decision to receive him believing that he demonstrated repentance and amendment of life and that his current state did not represent a bar to his reception,” she wrote in her official statement.

In a signed statement and newspaper interview this year, Parry admitted to several acts of sexual misconduct with young adults and teenagers while he was a Catholic monk in the 1970s and 1980s. “Frankly, those allegations, most of them are true,” Parry told the Kansas City Star in June.

Parry resigned from All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Las Vegas that month when a civil lawsuit was filed alleging that he abused a minor in 1987. At the time of the alleged abuse, Parry was a monk and choir director at Conception Abbey in Conception, Mo.

Current Nevada Bishop Dan Edwards said Thursday that Parry has not been accused of wrongdoing since his Episcopal ordination. “His voluntary resignation was for the good of the church.”

Parry has not functioned as a priest since his June resignation and will not be permitted to return to ministry, Edwards added. Bishop Edwards does not state that Parry has renounced his orders, but that he “resigned” from the diocese and that he will not function as a priest. We are not clear what “resigning” from a diocese is. Renunciation of orders requires a certification that the renunciation “was for causes which do not affect the person’s moral character.” Has Bishop Edwards given that certification? If he has not accepted a renunciation, has Parry’s ministry been restricted under Title IV? If neither has occurred, on what basis are we assured that Parry will not function as a priest in the future?

Before she agreed to ordain Parry, Jefferts Schori said she wrote to Catholic bishops in Las Vegas and Santa Fe, N.M., and received brief responses that “indicated no problematic behavior.”

Jefferts Schori also said she wrote to Conception Abbey “from whom I received only an acknowledgement that he had served there, been sent for treatment to a facility in New Mexico, and had been dismissed for this incident of misconduct.”

By his own admission, Parry’s statement contained an unequivocal declaration about what was communicated to the Presiding Bishop when she was the Bishop of Nevada: “Also in 2000, I considered joining the Prince of Peace monastery in Riverside, California. Prince of Peace had me undergo a series of psychological tests. After the testing, Prince of Peace’s Abbot Charles Wright informed me I was no longer a candidate. The psychological evaluation had determined that I had a proclivity to reoffend with minors. Abbot Wright called Conception Abbey’s Abbot Gregory Polan with this information.

Read the full story at Virtue Online. You can also read more GCM Watch reporting on the wicked reign of Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori.

Yes, it can be done. The current leadership of the Episcopal Church is readying the coffins for the dead apostasy riddled denomination.

Mark Tooley writes a compelling obituary at The American Spectator entitled, “Killing a Church”. The article is a review of William Murchison’s book on the church.  If we learn anything from this massive tragedy, it is that the acceptance of homosexuality means certain spiritual death for your church whether it is local or national. Death is sure to come.

Tooley notes that the while the fatal illness afflicting the denomination grew considerably worse with the “consecration” of its first openly homosexual bishop, it really began with compromises on the authority of the Word of God.

The Episcopal Church’s current crisis technically began with its 2003 election of openly homosexual Bishop Gene Robinson, igniting growing tensions with the nearly 80 million member Anglican Communion, especially its increasingly dominant and conservative African members. But Murchison traces the church’s wrong turn to the 1960s, when Episcopal elites increasingly chose for cultural conformity rather than cultural transformation. Like other Mainline Protestant elites, Episcopalians began to shed “exclusivist” claims about Christianity in favor of pluralism, where every ideology has a voice except for orthodoxy.

Not surprisingly, the rejection of orthodoxy in favor of cultural and political fads, whatever the spiritual consequences, has been disastrous for Episcopalians and all Mainline Protestant denominations, all of which have been losing members since the 1960s, between 25 and 40 percent. Former Presbyterians and Methodists and Lutherans either gave up on organized religion, or they joined evangelical or Catholic churches, or they, more permanently, died (!), leaving few if any descendants, as Mainline Protestants, especially Episcopalians, have notoriously low birth rates. The current Episcopal Presiding Bishop even celebrated this demographic collapse, claiming that Episcopalians were protecting the planet by abstaining from children.

And when apostates arose in the church, instead of putting them down, the church allowed their poisonous voices to exacerbate the infection, thus giving way to full blown apostasy.

Notorious, and highly charismatic, California Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who graced the cover of Time magazine, embodied this new restlessness. At the church’s 1964 General Convention, he bewailed “outdated, incomprehensible, and nonessential doctrinal statements, traditions, and codes,” having seemingly forgotten his own consecration vows to steadfastly resist all “strange and erroneous doctrine.” Pike urged a “theological revolution” to make the Gospel “relevant,” which entailed junking “myths” of past centuries, like the Virgin Birth and the Trinity, which were “unintelligible.” Eventually Pike pushed so hard that heresy charges were formally pressed. But ultimately, the Episcopal Church nervously shrank from ousting Pike for his apostasies. Pike’s unprosecuted rebellion foreshadowed expanded chaos for the church, as it succumbed to the surrounding secular culture’s demand for personal autonomy, accompanied by moral fragmentation.

Although Pike and his supporters strove for a “relevant” church, their influence helped spiral the Episcopal Church from 3.5 million in the 1960s to barely 2 million today, across 4 decades when the U.S. population increased by 50 percent. The embodiment of this decline was Bishop John Shelby Spong of Newark, whose best selling books deriding the Virgin Mary as a possible prostitute and speculating about St. Paul’s sexual preference got him on Phil Donahue. But the years of his progressive leadership, which included the ordination of actively homosexual clergy in defiance of church policy, saw a 40 percent decline of his diocese’s membership. “Why Christianity Must Change or Die,” was the title of one Spong book. But the form of doctrine-less Episcopalianism attracted only white, upper middle class, highly educated suburban liberals, and not very many of them. In recent years, respective Episcopal clergy have professed to be a Druid, a Muslim and a Buddhist. The first two ultimately left the ministry, and the third was denied election as bishop. But who’s to say their bi-faith choices were necessarily wrong?

Today we see the signs of sickness in many US Christian denominations. Their dna is dying because they have cast out the Spirit of Christ and have embraced doctrines of devils. Death is sure to come. Disobedience always brings death.

Read the entire requiem here

This is good news. In response to the Episcopal church’s ordination of its second homosexual bishop, Anglican leadership has basically pulled the plug on the denomination’s influence to debate doctrine and interact with other Christians on certain high level church committees.

According to Religion News Service, the church’s high priestess Katharine Jefferts Schori is highly upset.

The high-level dispute between the head of the Anglican Communion and Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori continues, as Jefferts Schori accused Archbishop of Canterbury of getting Anglican polity wrong and jumping the gun by imposing sanctions on her church. Conservative activists in England say its “discourteous” of an Anglican cathedral to invite Jefferts Schori to preach, given the tension in the AC.

A Beliefnet story indicated that the head of the Anglican Communion considered the second consecration an act of seditious disobedience.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the communion, proposed the removals last month after Episcopalians in Los Angeles consecrated an open lesbian as an assistant bishop. Bishop Mary Douglas Glasspool is the second openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, after Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who was consecrated in 2003.After Robinson’s consecration, all 44 member churches in the Anglican Communion were asked to abide by three moratoria: no more gay bishops, no official blessings for same-sex unions, no interfering in each other’s provinces.

While most Episcopalians support ordaining gays and lesbians as bishops, many Anglicans in the 77-million-member communion view homosexuality as a sin, and have angrily confronted the Episcopal Church. Williams had warned Episcopalians that consecrating Glasspool would have “consequences” for their role in the communion.

Kearon said he wrote to Episcopalians on the affected committees last Thursday to inform them of the changes. The one Episcopalian on the “faith and order” committee, the Rev. Katherine Grieb of Virginia, can serve as a consultant, but not a member, Kearon said.

The homosexual religious movement has done nothing good for the unity of the church. Quite the contrary, it has seeded and fostered division and disobedience to God and his word time and time again. Its good to know some church leaders are growing a backbone and responding with influence killing sanctions. And that’s best course of action with people who are hell bent on spreading sexual immorality and false teachings. Restrict, restrain and if possible kill their influence.

The Episcopal bishop who has been the source of much of the bitter division, vindictiveness and darkness clouding that denomination now wants people to pray away an insurmountable gay rift. Oh, and use discernment too.

In Dallas,  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefforts-Schori told the Associated Press that the church should respond with “prayer and discernment” after she opened the door and ushered in doctrines of devils disguised as tolerance and acceptance. [source] But how much discernment does the leader of a Christian denomination need to know that homosexuality is diametrically opposed to the will of God?

The queen witch appears to be attempting to play spiritual after years of punitive edicts against Episcopal bishops who refused to bow to Ahab aka Vickie Gene Robinson, the first open homosexual consecrated by the US Episcopalians to the bishopric.

Last month, the church set in motion the consecration of a second homosexual bishop.

The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the United States. In 2003, it caused an uproar by consecrating its first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

The following year, Anglican leaders asked the Episcopal Church to hold off on electing another gay bishop while they tried to prevent a permanent break in the fellowship.

But in July, the U.S. church’s top policy making body affirmed that gay and lesbian priests were eligible to become bishops despite pressure from other Anglicans.

The Archbishop of Canterbury called for gracious restraint on the matter, but Jefferts Schori said Saturday that “there was never any time frame attached to that request.”

She added that she didn’t know whether six years was long enough to wait but “the church is in the process of discerning that.”

The liberal-leaning Jefferts Schori spoke at a news conference with the more conservative Rev. William C. Frey, the retired bishop of Colorado who is now assisting bishop of the Diocese of the Rio Grande.

So far, Jefforts-Schori has rejected all efforts to halt the spread and approval of heresy and sexual immorality in the church.