VOL: You have some pals?

Bennison: My legal counsel James Pabarue is now my best friend....and, of course, my wife who has stood by me this whole time tolerating my rages against those petty little people who perjured themselves about what they claim I knew and saw with regards to my brother John. He has gone through hell with all this, the poor man.

VOL: Do you think you can persuade ANYONE on the Standing Committee to join you in your victory party?

A canon lawyer familiar with the situation in the Diocese of Pennsylvania said Bennison can be cited for "conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation," -- he is currently maintaining that the witnesses against him at his trial all perjured themselves.

"He could also be cited for 'habitual neglect of public worship, and of the Holy Communion, according to the order and use of the Church'," he said.

"The failure of the 20/20 initiative, combined with the subsequent controversy around human sexuality, has placed our community in a very precarious position," he writes.

Ironically, St. Matthew's is one of the few thriving inner city cathedrals left in The Episcopal Church. It is also in the relatively orthodox Diocese of Dallas that saw its flagship parish, Christ Church, Plano, defect to the Anglican Mission in the Americas.

"Under Nebraska Episcopal Bishop Joe Burnett the diocese has sued seven individuals, which is odd because the parish is a corporate entity, the vestry is not. They have no capacity in this case. The diocese is not suing the parish itself. It is the parish that made the decision to sever itself from the diocese. They voted that on Sept. 7, 2002."