UK News 28-04-2005 who: The Very Rev John Methuen, Dean of Ripon what: Resigns after charges of "conduct unbecoming" are dropped where: RIPON when: Tuesday snippet: The 57 year-old former chaplain at Eton resigned rather than face ecclesiastical court "on 21 counts relating to allegations of an autocratic management style and inappropriate behaviour towards women," says The Independent`s North of England Correspondent, Ian Herbert. In other Church news, Pope Benedict XVI`s inaugural Mass took place on Sunday; The Telegraph says he faces his first big challenge in Spain, where the government has just driven through a bill to allow homosexuals to marry and adopt children; and The Times reports from a sermon by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams at St Paul`s Cathedral, where he warned that "the liberalisation of trade barriers could lead to spiralling social disintegration or polarisation". [... more]

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