FAITH MATTERS -- Bishop Moore's secret

FAITH MATTERS -- Bishop Moore's secret

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Thursday, August 14, 2008
THE REV. ALEXANDER SANTORA

Bishop Paul Moore was a towering figure. He stood at 6 feet, 5 inches.
I had only seen photos of him in this newspaper and magazines until
1976, the bicentennial of our country's founding. I was walking up
Broadway in Manhattan, which was closed to traffic for the holiday,
and coming down the street wearing his Episcopal purple clerics and
pectoral cross was Moore with several of his, I assume, nine children
holding hands on either side of him. He looked like he owned
Broadway.

He also towered over the Episcopal church in the United States,
heading the most prestigious see in the country and perhaps second in
the world after Canterbury. He was on the cutting edge of the racial,
feminist and sexual revolutions that rocked his denomination and
indirectly set the stage for the current crisis in the Anglican
communion over the ordination of an openly gay bishop in a same sex
relationship.

And now his oldest child, Honor Moore, has written a well-received,
though controversial memoir, "The Bishop's Daughter," which reveals,
among other secrets, that her father had a 30-year sexual relationship
with a man, while marrying two women, fathering a brood of children,
and engaging in several adulterous relationships with other women.

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