1.   Individual parishes in the Boston area are not incorporated, so they can not borrow money from banks.

2.   The diocese does not have an accurate count of volunteers because many work for individual parishes for short periods, Injasoulian said.

3.   When that failed, Johnson sought to invoke an Episcopal canon granting church authorities the right to reorganize individual parishes.

4.   Harris, while agreeing with that policy, said that implementation was difficult when the church encouraged individual parishes to make their own decisions.

5.   He created controversy by asserting in one case that priests were independent contractors who work for individual parishes, not the diocese.

6.   He triggered controversy by asserting in videotaped testimony in one of those cases that priests were independent contractors who work for individual parishes, not the diocese.

7.   While churches have no power to grant legal asylum, individual parishes sometimes take in refugees who have had their applications rejected and try to get the decision overturned.