By Jennifer Berry Hawes, The Post and Courier (South Carolina). When the ongoing lawsuit over The Episcopal Church’s local breakup saga landed before the state Supreme Court last week, several justices peppered questions at an attorney representing parishes that broke away from the national church. Among those who spoke most was Justice Kaye G. Hearn….
By A.S. Haley, Anglican Curmudgeon. Late [April 15] the South Carolina Supreme Court issued a brief order transferring to itself the jurisdiction over the appeal filed by ECUSA and its rump group (ECSC) from the February 3, 2015 judgment and order against them entered by Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein. ECUSA and ECSC had themselves requested the transfer of the…
By A.S. Haley In trying to make sense of the trial in South Carolina (which I did not attend, but know only from the reports of those who did), I noted certain pervasive themes. First, the trial was a clash of diametrically opposed camps. Bishop Lawrence, his parishes and his Diocese were focused on going…
By Virtue Online CHARLESTON, S.C. – The South Carolina Supreme Court has intervened in a lawsuit and granted the Diocese of South Carolina Motion to transfer jurisdiction from the Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court. This may effectively prevent The Episcopal Church (TEC) and its local subsidiary, The Episcopal Church in South Carolina (TECSC),…