Tony Seel+: The DCNY Way

It wasn't that long ago that Bishop Skip Adams talked about finding a positive way forward with dissident parishes in the DCNY that would be a model for pecusa. Instead, he and the other leadership of the DCNY settled for the conventional hostile approach of pecusa. In three cases, St. Andrew's, Syracuse, St. Andrew's, Vestal, and Good Shepherd, Binghamton, the Diocese has sued two parishes and is saddled with the expenses of two church buildings in Vestal (the one of the three not sued).

What does the diocese have to show for their efforts? They have the legal expenses from two lawsuits, one settled and one ongoing and the proceeds from the sale of the rectory in Vestal. Considering that the rectory sold for $145,000, the diocese is operating at a loss thus far from its hostile approach. The diocesan loss is in both financial and in reputation. Of course, the diocese has been steadily losing reputation since at least the failed persecution of Fr. David Bollinger. the rest

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