the Rev. Dr. Michael G. Langston, a graduate of Yale Divinity School, was a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida removed from the priesthood in 2001 after a year-long investigation by North Carolina Bishop Michael Curry, later Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Langston was accused of having
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Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Paul Kowalewski
the Rev. Dr. Paul J. Kowalewski served as a priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo from 1973 to 1977, and during that time, he was sent to a church treatment facility in Canada “in response to his abuse of children.” In the late 1970s and ’80s, he earned
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Ralph Elwood Johnson
Episcopal priest Ralph Elwood Johnson pleaded guilty in November 2010 to 15 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with teenage parishioners between 1992 and 1995, including one charge involving an 11 year old. He also pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a mentally disabled 14-year-old boy in 2001. Ordained in 1962,
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: St. John’s Military Academy (Episcopal)
National Association of Episcopal Schools member St. John’s Military School was founded in 1887 in Salina, Kansas by Elisha Smith Thomas, first Episcopal Bishop of Kansas. A wide range of abuse claims were filed against St. John’s in a federal lawsuit in March 2012. An amended complaint was filed by
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