Diocese of LA Sells Out its Parish for the Money
by Allan Haley, The Anglican Curmudgeon:
Today, those clinging to the dying remnant that was the once-renowned Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (“PECUSA” — or, after they dropped the first adjective, “ECUSA”) finally learned that there is no soul left in that scabrous body. Long ago, it sold itself out to Mammon. Now, those who blinded themselves to that fact are sadly learning the reality.
I have thoroughly documented on this site all the ups and downs of the parish of St. James the Great, in Newport Beach (Orange County), nonetheless a member of the Diocese of Los Angeles. I regret having no patience for rehearsing the dreary steps of that history again: start here, then go here, and continue backwards through the earlier posts at this page.
The interim decision of the Hearing Panel of the Disciplinary Board for Bishops set forth its recommendations for the suspension of Bishop J. Jon Bruno and for the reinstatement of the congregation of St. James into its Newport Beach property. There was one dissenting view, from Bishop Michael Smith of North Dakota, who expressed the opinion that the Hearing Panel had no business getting mixed up in the local property ownership dispute.
As I detailed in my posts linked above, it emerged after the conclusion of the hearing that Bishop Bruno had secretly entered into another confidential agreement to sell the St. James property — to a different Newport Beach developer. The Hearing Panel entered a special order to keep him from going forward with the sale, which was to have closed escrow on July 3.
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