Unofficial Watchdog of the Episcopal Church
Area news media report that Vincent Hoang, the former Episcopal School of Baton Rouge teacher accused of grooming a black female student for sex has been fired from Woodlawn High School. The latter is a public high school in the area. Earlier efforts by Anglican Watch to obtain comments from the
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Anglican Watch first reported, nearly four months ago, prominent members and leaders of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Va., Anne and David Ayers, appear to be owners in the company behind the post-9/11 torture program. Under that initiative, mostly Muslim men, many of whom were never charged with a crime, were waterboarded, given forced anal feedings, and subjected to mock executions among other horrific tactics. TheEpiscopal Church, at the national level,
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In 2019, Gideon A. Uzomechina, a priest then canonically resident in the Diocese of New Jersey, was the subject of a Title IV disciplinary complaint involving three offenses: Sexual misconduct; conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; and failing to abide by a pastoral directive from his bishop. Among the allegations
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It’s rare that staff here at Anglican Watch fall out of our seats when we read about clergy discipline in the Episcopal Church. After all, we are very used to reading the phrase, “Not of weighty and material importance to the ministry of the church,” which is church-speak for “take a hike,
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