Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
Episcopal bishop Paul Moore was described by Bishop Andrew Dietsche in 2018. Paul Moore, a figure of extraordinary inspiration for so many of us, also bears the epithet “Serial Predator.” Paul Moore died fifteen years ago, but for those who continue to live with the pain of his long-ago abuse,
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In 2005 Episcopal church treasurer Christine Hersom was charged with embezzling more than $100,000 from Trinity Episcopal Church, Tilton, New Hampshire. Earlier the same year church warden and youth minister Scott Nash was charged with sexually assaulting four year old girls at the church and stealing $5,000 from its food
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In 2013 protesters picketed Prince of Peace Episcopal Church in Dallas, Pennsylvania (Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem) over historical sex abuse charges against parishioner, Penn State professor, and Boy Scouts of America troop leader Edward (“Ted”) Dreisbach. Dreisbach’s Boy Scout mentoring relationship between 1960 and 1989 was terminated by the BSA
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Episcopal priest D. Lorne Coyle was ordained in 1975 after he attended Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Coyle was disciplined in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island in 1991 for an extramarital affair but allowed to remain a priest in good standing. Coyle was rector of Trinity Episcopal Church,
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