Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
Anglican Watch has learned from a reliable source that there has been a criminal referral involving the conflict at St. Paul’s, Montvale. The referral involves potentially illegal conduct by Jeff Piatt and Beth Abrahamson, including possible tax evasion, money laundering, and theft of church financial records. The referral also references Montvale
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Episcopal priest William J. Smith pleaded guilty to counts of sexual assault against minor male parishioners at Holy Apostles Episcopal Church in Oneida, Wisconsin and Christ the Episcopal Church in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, both in the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac. He was also charged with taking nude photographs
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Baltimore Episcopal organist and boy choir director David R. Riley was granted probation before judgment on one count of child pornography possession after police found hundreds of “photographs that depicted young boys as the subjects of sadomasochistic abuse” with clothespins on their bodies. Riley entered an Alford Plea and did
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Conservative Anglo-Catholic Episcopal priest Bradley Barber was ordained to the priesthood in 1986. He was a member of the Evangelical and Catholic Mission opposed to the ordination of women to the priesthood. Barber was a priest at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota, Florida until he became a Roman
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