From From The Daily News and Various Sources (Its hard to believe the traction this is getting)A Massachusetts priest busted plagiarizing his sermons directly from the Web has been suspended.
The Rev. John McGinn, 65, is accused of directly lifting his speeches from the "Dynamic Preaching" book — which is only available via an online subscription at Sermons.com.
The Episcopal clergyman also allegedly published some of the work in written form under his own name.
McGinn, who has led St. John's Episcopal in the Cape Cod town of Sandwich since 1993, was put on administrative leave earlier this month.
His shocked congregation of 300, who meet each week in a small wood-shingled village church, were told of his fate in a letter from the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.
"This is a serious breach of the pastoral relationship between John and each of you," wrote Bishop M. Thomas Shaw.
Read more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mass-priest-punished-plagiarizing-sermons-article-1.1350095#ixzz2U1cDwbyp
and here-
http://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopal-priest-suspended-for-allegedly-stealing-sermons-from-book-dynamic-preaching-96379/
and here-
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/religion/rev-john-mcginn-dismissed-after-allegedly-stealing-sermons
More here-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2328070/Priest-suspended-plagiarizing-straight-Sermons-com.html
More-
http://www.inquisitr.com/670609/priest-suspended-plagiarized-sermons-from-sermons-com/
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