Inquiry

I placed the following inquiry on the St Mary of the Angels contact page, giving my e-mail and phone number for any reply:

Robert W Bowman is interim priest at St Mary's neighbor ACA parish, All Saints Fountain Valley. Bowman was arrested in 2009 on child pornography charges, something noted in several newspapers at the time. However, Bowman was hired as a priest by the ACA DOW in 2013, and he is still interim priest at All Saints Fountain Valley. I notified the ACA of Bowman's arrest in April 2014, but it has taken no apparent action over Bowman. Normal church practice in protecting children is to require background checks for all priests, employees, and volunteers. Clearly the ACA is not doing this. What is Bishop Williams's position on this? What actions will he take to assure prospective St Mary's parishioners that their children will be safe, if he hasn't taken any measures to do this up to now at All Saints Fountain Valley? Has Bishop Williams himself ever submitted to a background check?

Last week I was contacted by a newspaper reporter asking for information on St Mary's, who noted that although the parish has a phone number on its site, it doesn't pick up or return calls. I assume I will not receive a reply. If I do, I will post it here.

UPDATE: I sent a copy of this message to the e-mail address of Williams's current parish, Trinity Pro-Cathedral in Rochester, NH. I got the following failure notice:

Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.

tac@metrocast.net:
Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 ... User Unknown [RCPT_TO]

Oh, right, the parish e-mail contact for the ACA-DONE Pro-Cathedral is out of order. These people are not adults.