Episcopal Bishop Bennison Takes The Stand

By Bradley Vasoli, The Bulletin
06/12/2008

Philadelphia - Episcopal Bishop Charles Bennison, of Pennsylvania, took the witness stand yesterday in his ecclesiastical trial and asserted he did not initially know that his brother, a priest, had sex with a minor.

Bp. Bennison's trial will determine whether he can remain as the presiding clergyman in the five-county region. It concerns whether he violated the canons of the church by failing to report alleged knowledge of his brother John's adulterous affair with an underage female parishioner at St. Mark's Church in Upland, Calif., in the early 1970s. the rest