“As the Civil Service, the NHS, and the Home Office, the first response to any problem is to recruit more bureaucrats. So, over the past 30 years, we have seen diocesan bureaucracies increase drastically, while the number of parish priests has fallen.”
“The situation can be salvaged but, as with the NHS, a radical change of direction is required. The closure of churches during the first lockdown was a major error –…
“The answers by the Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, the Rt Revd Martin Seeley, to the General Synod (11 February) point to the essence of the financial dilemma being addressed by development of an uncosted Vision and Strategy alongside the massacre, through ever more mergers and closures, of parishes that are the source of £1 billion of funding.”
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