National Church Will Spend Over $1 Million in Law Suits in 2007

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[VitrueOnline] 13 Dec 2007--The National Church headquarters of The Episcopal Church is on a legal spending binge as dioceses and parishes exit the denomination.

Figures, VirtueOnline has received, reveal that prior to 2005 there did not appear to be any major expenditures on legal fees until after Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the new Presiding Bishop, took office.

Up until that time, former Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold appeared to have kept his attorney David Booth Beers seriously muzzled, but as soon as Mrs. Jefferts Schori took office that changed. She is the second woman (after Ellen Cooke) to break through the glass ceiling and, if the stories are true, wears pants with sterner stripes than Griswold.