MAJOR NEWS ANNOUNCED TODAY !

(May 9)

CHURCH MOVES TO REPOSSESS

PROPERTIES AND DIOCESE
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(May 9, 7 p.m.) Monday (May 7), Tuesday (May 8), and Wednesday (May 9) of this week turned out to reveal a major triple advance by the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church in South Carolina in the ongoing legal war between the independent Diocese of South Carolina and TEC. The actions occurred on all three of the avenues of litigation: U.S. Supreme Court, the (state) circuit court, and the U.S. District (federal) Court. One we already knew, the TEC response in the U.S. Supreme Court to DSC's petition for writ of cert. That was on Monday. The other two, from yesterday and today, we learned about today. They were petitions, one in the circuit court (May 8) and one in the federal court (May 9). The point of these is for the Church and the Church diocese to regain physical possession of the 28 parishes and Camp St. Christopher as well as the assets and legal entity of the pre-schism diocese.

I am just learning of the last two and had no idea these were in the works. I have been away from my computer all day and am just now returning. I will be back with more information and commentary as soon as I have had time to study the new documents.

This is an enormously important turn of events in the history of the schism.

Meanwhile, see the TECSC statement about the two new initiatives here .