New Archbishop of Canterbury

KS55 said:
Piccadilly gardens is not the epitome of our culture, but it is a failing.
Our culture is much more typified by the forcing out of the last AoC who covered up child abuse. A generation ago, he would have just carried on and we would have been none the wiser.
The child abuse gangs got away with it due to a reluctance to talk about it and inaction by the police and others. That has changed for the better.
A party leader could not today say: “So Cyril Smith smacked a few bottoms, so what?”
The perception of steep decline is well wide of the mark.
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Well said.
 
johnny crossan said:
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"Justin Welby was AoC 105 and the issue of 'Safeguarding' which forced his resignation will loom large in the public’s mind when 106 is announced. The new Archbishop’s first order of business will be defending their own record. The Crown Nomination Committee, led by a former spy-chief, Lord Evans of Weardale, will be conscious of this, and whoever is chosen will have been carefully vetted. Any blemish that is uncovered after the announcement, though, will have the potential to scupper the ship before it is out of the harbour." (Church Times)
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*forced his resignation?
Should be on trial.
 
KS55 said:
Our culture is not in steep decline. Compared to almost any other period, our culture is alive and well. Most of all we care more now for lame ducks, oppressed minorities, children etc.
One Christian virtue was to lock up gay people, for example. The C of E flourished at a time when we allowed small children to work long hours in factories. People have been moaning about societal decline since the year dot. Read some Herodotus for example.
Ah yes, the good old days.
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Forget the Greeks give me the good old days every time - I'm with this bloke not the latest barbarians

 
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