More examples of the inclusivity of TEC
Convicted Pedophile Episcopal Priest to Host Spiritual Retreats with Presiding Bishop’s Blessing
News Analysis By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
5/14/2008
A convicted and defrocked pedophile Episcopal priest is being allowed to conduct spiritual retreats - two of them in an Episcopal facility with the blessing of Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori, TEC’s Presiding Bishop.
In an exchange of correspondence with David Clohessy, National Director of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Mrs. Jefferts Schori, through her Pastoral Development Officer Bishop F. Clayton Matthews, said that Mr. Lynn C. Baumann could function as a spiritual retreat master on the understanding that "Mr. Baumann’s contact (is) to adults only".
Baumann is scheduled to lead spiritual retreats at The House of Prayer in the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, later this month.
"There are big problems with that," Clohessy told VOL. "If I start telling people, from today forward, that I am a sex offender, it does nothing to ameliorate the betrayal of all those people who have already been mislead by my secrecy, nor does it reach out to anyone already molested.
"If I own a toxic waste dump and, under public pressure, post a sign saying ‘DANGER STAY OUT’, it fails to address the issue of how many children have already been contaminated!"
Clohessy said Bauman molested one youngster and several others at a retreat center ironically titled "The Way of the Wolf Retreat Center" in Fredericksburg, Texas.
Read here: http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8238
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