Earlier, we reported on the curious case of the Rev. Dr. Tommy Lee Watkins. In his case, the diocese of Alabama appears to be going hell for leather after Watkins in a Title IV case, even as it ignores allegations of child molestation involving the Rev. Stephen McWhorter. At the
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Spotlight on abuse: Claudius I. Vermilye, Jr.
Ordained in 1948, the Rev. Dr. Claudius I. Vermilye, Jr. was a seminary graduate of Sewanee, the University of the South. The divorced father of five served at Christ Church, Alto, Tennessee from 1953 to 1962 and St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Tifton, Georgia before becoming the director of Tennessee Boys
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Dr. Howard “Howdy” White
In 2016, Central Pennsylvania Bishop Audrey Scanlan placed on administrative leave the Rev. Dr. Howard “Howdy” White, former chaplain at St. George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island from his Pennsylvania church following revelations that White was “among the subjects of an investigation into widespread sexual abuse” at that school. More
Continue readingSpotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Victor Richer
the Rev. Canon Victor Richer, canon to the ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of Montana from 1972 until 1995, resigned from the priesthood in July 2002 after ecclesiastical charges surfaced regarding his rape of a 15 year old female parishioner at the Church of the Incarnation in Great Falls, Montana
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