Dialogue Ireland response to the CHURCH OF IRELAND GAZETTE article on Willi Stewart.

Dialogue Ireland response to:

“Last week, the since retired Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, said that, whilst extending pastoral support to Mr Stewart and his family when he resigned from CORE Church, he “consistently refused to give him clearance to apply for any further ministry in Ireland or overseas.””

Willi Stewart: Controversy following former C. of I. cleric’s resignation from English parish

 

 

CHURCH OF IRELAND GAZETTE  Home News FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2012 – 5

Controversy following former C. of I. cleric’s resignation from English parish

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The Revd Will Stewart, formerly of the Church of Ireland’s CORE Church in Dublin until 2004,

Reply to the Bishop of Thetford’s Statement by the Director of Dialogue Ireland Mike Garde

The Rt Rev Alan Winton, Bishop of Thetford, released a statement last night saying: “Rev William Stewart has decided to resign from his current post as Rector of the Chet Valley benefice.”

Loddon Vicar Chooses To Resign by Ben Olive in the Loddon Eye

Posted on 6 November, 2012 by Ben

http://loddoneye.com/2012/11/06/loddon-vicar-chooses-to-resign/#more-1558

The Rev William Stewart has resigned from his position as vicar at the Chet Valley Benefice in Loddon after details of an incident from his past have placed his family under pressure.

Legion of Christ controls $28 million estate in Rhode Island by Jason Berry, Oct. 23, 2012

National Catholic Reporter

http://ncronline.org/node/37616

The Legion of Christ drew $2.19 million last year from a $28 million charitable trust that it controls, thanks to Gabrielle Mee, a wealthy widow who spent her final years as a consecrated woman in Regnum Christi, the order’s lay wing. An orthodox Catholic, she was unaware that Marcial Maciel Degollado, the founder of the Legion, had out-of-wedlock children or that the Vatican had banished him from ministry.

Whence Willi, Why Loddon?

http://www.chetvalleychurches.org/