If Bede Parry were a relative nobody or a mere bit player in the murky sewage pond of RC priestly sexual abuse, it would be one thing, but that is not the case. Parry is a very big and well-known fish in that fetid pool. There are whole pages at several sites cataloging his multiple abuse victims and activities over the years.

Go to: behindthepinecurtain.com/wordpress, conceptionabbeyabuse.com, snaparch.com
bishop-accountability.org for more information on this infamous offender.

Some of these sites have been documenting the abuse for a long time now.

Shori really has no grounds or excuse to plead ignorance, except what can only be called willful ignorance. She had to have intentionally chosen to exercise affirmative action in behalf of the LBGTXYZ-hood (I hesitate to use brother and sisterhood since they have gone beyond such rigid definitions of sexuality according to Gene Robinson) despite his very limited and consequently false confession. From what he claims, Parry only confessed to one incident and did not tell the whole truth about the extent of his offenses.

Shori has employed silence and the public statement of the Bishop of Nevada in an effort to ignore the truth that has arrived at her door. There is already sufficient evidence that she hired a confessed abuser. Think about it. If a prospective employee confessed abuse, wouldn’t you at least have your staff investigate the matter or contact his former employer yourself. She either did not, thus she was negligent or she did investigate, even saw the websites, and/or contacted his employers, but hired him anyway. Either way, she did not use godly wisdom, judgment or spiritual discernment. It was a form of nepotism – sexual orientation nepotism – to be exact.

Whether this last business, the reported conversation, is true or not, is another matter entirely.

How unusual it is for me to be agreeing with Jim Naughton. He’s right. It’s hearsay, but questions have been raised which would be far better answered forthrightly and promptly (and truthfully). If she knew a little, but not the whole, she should get that out there sooner rather than later. We know she knew a little, because she put restrictions on Parry’s ministry when she accepted him. Even if that’s all there is, I question her judgment in accepting him into the Episcopal priesthood at all.

As undersourced as KJS’s resume? “School of Theology,” my a$$.

Even if PB Jefferts Schori is culpable she’ll still be PB tomorrow…and the next day… Nobody still in TE{c} is going to ask her to account for her actions. No.Bo.Dy. She gets a pass every time. She has no vested interest in saying anything here. She won’t be compelled by any of the lily-livered TE{c} weasel bishops.

Bennison is still in TEC, correct? And everyone wanted him to go. What are the chances with Schori given that?

I didn’t know that the Episcopal Church had any moral credibility to lose!

I guess I must have missed that in all the furor of the lawsuits over property and the persecution of the orthodox still left within TEC.

Even if PB Jefferts Schori is culpable she’ll still be PB tomorrow…and the next day… Nobody still in TE{c} is going to ask her to account for her actions.

You don’t get it. This is a federal crime – and she will do time.

“We know she knew a little, because she put restrictions on Parry’s ministry when she accepted him.”

That’s what is the final straw about this whole thing for me, Katharine. Formerly I thought the best (because only) defence she could mount would be “Look, he told me the reason the RCs kicked him to the curb was because he was gay and they caught him messing around with a couple other seminarians, but since we’re all inclusive and sensitive and New Thing, that’s no bar to ordination in TEC so I said “Welcome aboard” and it’s not my fault he lied to me” but if she put restrictions on access in ministry, then obviously she knew more than she let on, and no way he should have been considered for the clergy in her diocese.

@Fuinseoig,

Just so!

Pax et bonum,
Keith Töpfer