Yesterday, Anglican Watch filed a Title IV clergy disciplinary complaint against the Rev. Canon Carl Turner, rector of St. Thomas, Fifth Avenue. We did so on behalf of a male victim of sexual assault at the church, whom we referred to by the pseudonym “Michael” in order to protect his privacy and
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Update: Things go from bad to worse at St. Thomas’ Fifth Avenue
Earlier, we posted about the appalling allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and retaliation against a male member of St. Thomas’ Fifth Avenue, the storied former church home of Brooke Astor, the Vanderbilts, and other pillars of the Gilded Age. Since then, there have been multiple developments, none of them
Continue readingLack of adultery charges against Liam Goligher disrespects his wife and others and makes a mockery of the PCA’s claim to biblical authority, even as cheap grace abounds
Following an Anglican Watch report on PCA pastor Liam Goligher and his guilty plea to sex in a public park with married church member Susan Elzey, a lengthy but illusory disciplinary process against Goligher played out within the Philadelphia Presbytery. The process, marked by multiple lies by Goligher about his
Continue readingTwo men connected with St. Thomas Fifth Avenue were arrested over allegations of sexual abuse. So why did Bishop Heyd dismiss the related Title IV complaint? And why are the arrested men still working at the church and living at the choir school in proximity to children?
You can’t make this stuff up. Two men, William Davis and Fr. Mark Schultz, have allegedly been arrested by New York police following allegations that they sexually abused an adult male individual connected with St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. Both are church employees. The alleged victim also reported the matter
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