Month: April 2022

Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest and scout leader David E. Cates

April 20, 2022 Anglican Watch One comment

Episcopal priest and Boy Scout troop leader David E. Cates was arrested in January 1973 for sexual assault of four eight-year-old boys in his rectory swimming pool at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, North Highlands, Antelope, California. The Seabury-Western Seminary graduate pleaded guilty and was suspended from the priesthood for ten years

Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest William Walter Elrod

April 20, 2022 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

Episcopal priest and school chaplain William W. Elrod

In June 2011, a 57-year-old woman filed a lawsuit against the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane for sexual abuse when she was 13-14 years old at St. Paul’s School for Girls in Walla Walla, Washington. The suit identified Episcopal priest William Walter Elrod, chaplain and headmaster of the school from 1966

Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Charles L. Rice

April 19, 2022 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

Episcopal priest Charles L. Rice was disciplined in the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem in 2012 for failure to follow mandatory reporting guidelines at Christ Episcopal Church in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania during 1995 to 1997 incidents regarding organist Kenneth Bernard Schade when at least one a minor parishioner complained about Schade’s behavior.

Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal high school chaplain Adrian Parry

April 19, 2022 Anglican Watch 2 comments

Episcopal high school chaplain, organist, and choirmaster Adrian Parry was removed from the priesthood by Bishop Leopold Frade in 2007 after students at Trinity Palmer Episcopal School in Miami discovered thousands of videos and photographs of him wrestling nude online with dozens of men in December 2006. Parry registered his

Anglican Watch on Bishop Mark Beckwith ignored warnings about pedophile Greg Lisby: “Thanks, Cat. I am so sorry to learn that things were even worse than we realized. We’re glad to help…”

Cat on Bishop Mark Beckwith ignored warnings about pedophile Greg Lisby: “I knew the victim. It is true. It is actually so much worse than what you have written. I have…”

Anglican Watch on Texas police arrest two Episcopal school officials for failing to report child sexual abuse. We applaud.: “Yes, Chris is manipulative, a bully, and dishonest. Not someone I’d want around kids or a leadership role. – EB”

Heather on Texas police arrest two Episcopal school officials for failing to report child sexual abuse. We applaud.: “Good! Let them serve time. And many more should serve with them. Chris Byrnes….ughhhh….What an awful memory.”

Colin Ross on Guilty by reason of insanity: SBC plans to sell HQ, sheds members due to abuse but denies there’s an issue. Sounds painfully familiar.: “You forgot the Catholics. Vermont Diocese is filing for bankruptcy to hide its assets from its new round of abuse…”