Soooo… the question is what did the presiding Bishop know…..

...and when did she know it.

Dropped the cards and lost the pot. Told ya, truth will out.

If anyone is so gullible as to think that Katharine Jefferts Schori will ever “report herself” for canonical violations, then I’ve got a steel bridge across the River Styx that I’d like to sell them.  She’ll never admit to anything.

Add the Stefano’s comment above, the observation that Tisdale’s mouth was moving, therefore he must have been lying, since he is an attorney, we can begin to grasp the meat of the matter.

She lied, he lied, the whole pack of thieves lied, and we shall never really know, tho’ inquiring minds we might be

So they were organizing another diocese in SC. I think she should be held accountable for this. If I were a bishop, I would like like the precedent.

It sounds like she had more than just contingency plans drawn up. I think this qualifies for disciplinary action. Perhaps it could be considered border crossing, or is the P.B. exempt from ecclesiastical boundaries?

Sorta kind getting the scaffold built before the trial…

Does the term “Star Chamber” ring a bell?  It should, because that’s exactly what this amounts to.

Pb, The feeling here is that they are free to organize another diocese. We have a couple of stipulations/suggestions:

1) DO NOT use our name or seal!
2) Organize the NEW diocese according to the canons of TEC. They will have to wait until GC 2015 to be admitted to GC. Good luck!

#9, I’d wonder whether the remnant group would (or will ever) have the cash to organize another diocese, paying for office expenses, salaries for lay and clergy staff.

#6, the PB has no authority in a diocese, without permission of the diocesan bishop. The Archbishop of Canterbury could visit a TEC parish and sit in the pews, but could not serve liturgically without permission from the diocesan bishop. The ACI lays the groundwork for canonical charges, and the Anglican Curmudgeon explains how to file charges. But, if she’s the totalitarian that we believe she’s become, then the charges will go into the dustbin. However, what she’s doing is being laid up in a little treasury in heaven, and it will be unlocked at just the right time. She cannot escape that except by true repentance.

She’s sure that she’s got all of her bases covered, and, I’d say she’s being rather smug about it, wouldn’t you say?

#9. I agree that this is the situation now. I was talking about organizing a new diocese apart from the authority of the diocesan bishop which I believe to be illegal.

#10- Of course they will have the cash.  It will be provided from collection plates all over TEC, courtesy of the national asking.  And likely the bishops will pay up, too, lest they run afoul of whichever Title IV canon happens to be most convenient.

And they’ll be dumb enough to keep right on doing it, won’t they?  How many times do they have to be bombarded with the truth before it finally sinks is that they’ve been hoodwinked and bamboozled by a bunch of charlatans parading around like clowns in a circus?

40 clergy being paid by 1000 communicants…let’s do the math.  If they are families representing 1/3 giving units, that comes to 333 giving units.  If EACH gives $10,000 a year, that comes to 3 million 30 thousand at the end of each year.  If every clergy is paid $45,000, that comes to 1 million 800 thousand a year.  That leaves a little over 1 million 200 thousand to make ends meet for the parishes they will hold but add taxes.  Let’s not forget the tithe to the national group headed by that woman. Looks like a WINNING (Charlie Sheen phrase) proposition to me!

I am wondering to what extend endowments and trust funds are part of the ultimate target of this operation.

Are you all really that surprised?

Adam 12, I’d say they’re at the top of the list.

If alms, given to the parish, were deflected to fund lawsuits, would that be an infraction of tax codes? (I’m not a lawyer…)

Gee Ralph, where do you think the money for all the previous and current lawsuits came from?  Granted, sometimes it is old money, you know, your grandparents alms to the parish, but other than some cash thrown off by Trinity Wall Street investments, and the occasional gift that goes directly to the national church, most of the money used for everything in the budget (including lawsuits) is a portion of diocesan income, which, in turn, is a portion of total parish income.
So, yes, they use alms, given to the parish.  Which does mean, with the exception of Dallas a maybe a few other dioceses that withhold money from 815, part of anything you throw into the plate on Sunday goes to fund lawsuits.

Even though one may choose to withold his or her offering, that doesn’t mean that it will have an effect on TEC’s funding of lawsuits, unless, of course, hundreds of thousands of pew sitters choose not to contribute.  That’s not going to happen unless they get hit by a “great awakening” and realize what it really means.  God will speak to them, and when He does, they’re in for a rude shock.

21- While I am sure you are correct, that TEC will fund its lawyers by whatever means are necessary, I would have to think that the dwindling number of contributors is of some concern, even to KJS.  Actually, when you figure that even by their own figures, TEC loses 10’s of thousands of parishioners every year, I think it would be fair to speculate that additional people reduce or withhold their pledge.  Granted, the total income stream to TEC usually goes up in a given year, but that income is being provided by fewer and fewer people.  And most people are know are floored when they discover that TEC is putting more money into seizing property and suing congregations than into feeding people in the 3rd world.

If I were still an Episcopalian, I’d have to think twice before I’d give any money to my local church if I had any idea of where it eventually ended up once the vestry got their hands on it, given my suspicious nature.