The following was sent via the newswires on March 17, 2025. Anglican Watch, a leading church watchdog group, is sounding the alarm over declining trust in the Episcopal Church’s Title IV, the denomination’s labyrinthine and slow-moving clergy disciplinary process. In doing so, the organization is calling for Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe to take immediate action…
One of the things Anglican Watch likes about the Diocese of Southern Ohio is that it has a very sensible provision in its canons. Specifically, the Diocese expressly allows a parish to stop paying an administratively suspended priest who is part of a Title IV disciplinary proceeding after 90 days. (Canon XVIII, Section 10. (a)) But St. Paul’s Dayton has, at…
The Episcopal Church has issued a request for comments on the Title IV clergy disciplinary process. An online form is available here, and the deadline for comments is November 15. Among the topics on which the church’s Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, Constitution, and Canons (SCCC) seeks comment: The canonical role of church attorneys in…