Mexican bishops rebuked: $1.4 million US misappropriated.EPISCOPAL NEWS SERVICE New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of A committee that monitors the relationship between the Episcopal Church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization of the United States (ECUSA ECUSA Episcopal Church in the United States of America ) and the Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico (IAM IAM - Interactive Algebraic Manipulation. Interactive symbolic mathematics for PDP-10. ["IAM, A System for Interactive Algebraic Manipulation", C. Christensen et al, Proc Second Symp Symb Alg Manip, ACM Mar 1971]. ) has issued a statement on financial difficulties stemming from the misappropriation misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one's own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official, a trustee of a trust, an executor or administrator of a dead person's estate, or by any of funds by two Mexican bishops. The committee of lay and clergy representatives appointed by presiding bishops of the two churches addressed reports of financial mismanagement in the dioceses of Western and Northern Mexico and "the need for greater mutuality in mission and ministry." The committee's review "produced a clear understanding that the leaders of the IAM have recognized the illicit actions of two of IAM's five diocesan bishops - Samuel Espinosa of Western and German Martinez of Northern Mexico." Audits reveal that approximately $1.4 million US is involved over a period of five years, the bulk of the funds apparently coming from "custodial accounts and other designated funds held by ECUSA at IAM's request." The committee said that "there may also have been unauthorized transfers from subsidy payments provided by ECUSA to assist in IAM's movement into autonomy." Contrary to rumours that the two bishops involved had been pardoned by the present interim presiding bishop, the committee's statement said that representatives of the Mexican church "disclosed fully the actions being taken to prosecute the bishops of Western and Northern Mexico, through Mexico's criminal court system for their misbehavior." IAM has also taken action to inhibit the two prelates from functioning as bishops. The standing committees of the dioceses are now functioning as the ecclesiastical authority. The committee said it was satisfied that leadership of the Mexican church "is proceeding responsibly and with due diligence Research; analysis; your homework. This term has caught on in all industries, because it sounds so "wired." Who would want to do analysis or research when they can do due diligence. See wired. to cure the sad conditions caused by the misappropriations" of the two bishops. |
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