Budget Trouble in Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
Faced with a revenue shortfall driven in part by dissatisfaction with Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr., the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania today is expected to cut 19 percent from its 2007 operating budget. Meeting in a special session of the annual diocesan convention, delegates will be asked to slash the budget from $3.45 million to $2.82 million. Bennison, who has been sharply criticized for his spending practices and for concealing his brother's sexual abuse of a teenage parishioner decades ago, said he thought "four or five" parishes were withholding pledges as a protest against his leadership.
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Posted by Editor at January 6, 2007 08:17 PM
