Episcopal Bishop of Central New York Sues Blogger Matt Kennedy

Transfigurations has it all here. Here's an excerpt:

The Church of the Good Shepherd was a small struggling congregation when Bishop Adams took over the diocese as its new bishop. One of the first priests he ordained was Fr. Kennedy, who then went to Good Shepherd and raised it to be a vibrant congregation doubling its Sunday morning attendance. Since taking the church in Binghamton, Fr. Kennedy has acquired a reputation as one of the most widely read and respected commentators of church news in the Anglican Communion. Today, however, that same bishop who ordained him has sued his church, and refuses to even to acknowledge that Fr. Kennedy is a priest, referring to him as "Mr. Kennedy" in correspondence. In a cover letter to the summons, the lawyer for Bishop Adams likewise followed suit, and addressed the priest as "Matt Kennedy" and "Mr. Kennedy."

Read the rest here, and here, and here, oh - and here - and especially here. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, right Maddie? An extraordinary example that we are indeed facing a division of the first magnitude, as Virginia Judge Randy Bellows recently declared in his ruling.