Alison Millbank points out that an oversight minister will not ‘increase the cure of souls’. Alan Stanley points out that Launde will cause a haemorrhage of good will, people and money. Sir James Burnell-Nugent points out that there is money in the Church and a small change in the way that it is spent would make a difference to the rural parish.
There is no excuse for the continuance of the interregnum for stipendiary clergy. Read original article here
“This was not the first time Sir James has intervened in the debate over the future direction of the national Church. In a letter to The Times in October last year, he called Leicester diocese’s decision ‘to fold 234 parishes into the embrace of 20 to 25 huge groups’ a ‘sad day for the Church of England’.
He accused the CofE of behaving ‘like a socialist republic: demanding increasing “tax” (parish share) from dwindling numbers of churchgoers, then spending too much of it on its own bureaucracy. Moreover, as The Times reported last month, in 2017-2020 it spent £248 million on “renewal and reform” projects that failed to increase church attendance.”
Julian Mann points out that clergy cuts and the 26 bishops in Parliament may not go together once more MPs become of aware of how the hierarchy of the Church…
“A 1,000-year-old system of parishes could be collapsed by panic.”
“SIR – The Church of England’s director of communications says the Church is “doing everything it can to support its parishes”. How I wish that were true. In the dioceses of Truro,…
