Episcopal bishop hears some call for him to resign
Philadelphia Inquirer
November 12, 2006

Episcopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. deflected a call for his resignation at yesterday's annual diocesan convention, despite angry denunciations of his fiscal practices and the cover-up decades ago of his brother's sex abuse.

Last week, the diocesan standing committee asked the denomination's presiding bishop to investigate Bennison for spending more than $10 million of diocesan money without the committee's approval.

Yesterday, he sought to stave off criticism early by telling delegates that he 'never' spent any diocesan money 'without the approbation of the requisite body.'

Bennison then apologized once again for his 'extremely misguided' failure to report his brother John's abuse of a minor in the California parish where they both worked in the 1970s.
He also acknowledged that he had given several erroneous accounts of his handling of the matter since The Inquirer reported on the abuse and cover-up last month. the rest