UNITED STATES
SB Wire
Carrabelle, FL — (SBWIRE) — 11/09/2012 — The Universal Life Church World Headquarters, two years ago embarked upon a rather controversial subject matter and that is background checks on and/or third party endorsement of their Ministers. Amidst sexual abuse claims against Ministers or Priests ordained by other churches, the Universal Life Church World Headquarters took it upon themselves to be the pioneer of such a bold initiative. Initially some backlash was received, however now after two years it has paid off and proved to be the right move.
The President and the Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Michael J. Cauley, OSM, when asked about it had this to say:
“We had two objectives for implementing background checks and/or 3rd party endorsement, to separate our faith based, professional Ministers, from other online ordination assembly lines with similar names who ordain anybody and everyone.”
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