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>Episcopal News Service
>May 4, 2010

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>Today's Episcopal News Service includes:

* DIOCESAN DIGEST - PENNSYLVANIA: Ecclesiastical review court hears
arguments on Bennison verdict, proposed deposition
* DAYBOOK - May 5: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
* EBAR PICK - "Women's Wisdom: Motherhood"

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>DIOCESAN DIGEST

PENNSYLVANIA: Ecclesiastical review court hears arguments on Bennison
verdict, proposed deposition

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service - Wilmington, Delaware] Attorneys for the
Episcopal Church and for Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Charles
Bennison argued before an ecclesiastical appeals court here May 4
about whether the bishop should have been tried and convicted on
charges stemming from his response to his priest brother's sexual
misconduct some 35 years ago.

Among the issues facing the eight-bishop Court of Review for the Trial
of a Bishop after three hours of oral arguments are questions of
whether the evidence presented at Bennison's trial supported his
conviction, whether the canonical statute of limitations on those
actions had run, and whether the trial court's sentence of deposition
would be unduly harsh because Bennison himself did not engage in the
sexual abuse.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_122037_ENG_HTM.htm

More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm

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>DAYBOOK

>On May 5, 2010...

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of Prayer:

http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* Today in History: On May 5, 553, the Second Council of
Constantinople convened under the city's new patriarch Eutychius.

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