Pennsylvania’s Bishop Bennison to face trial
March 8, 2008

A trial date has been set for the Bishop of Pennsylvania to adjudicate charges under canon law that he conspired to cover up the sexual abuse of a parishioner. The Rt. Rev. Charles E. Bennison, Jr., will also come before a civil court in May to answer charges that his use of the “abandonment canon” to depose a priest without benefit of trial was an egregious violation of law and equity.

Bishop Bennison will stand trial before a bishops’ court on June 9, and before the Montgomery Country Court of Common Pleas outside Philadelphia in its May session. the rest