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Church of England head Justin Welby resigns over handling of sex abuse scandal. Plus: Church Leadership Scandals

Photo From Baptist Press. FILE - Britain's new Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, center, leaves after his enthronement ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, England, Thursday, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Sex scandals are chasing people away from Church. Sharon and I hear this when are out on the streets and byways. It is hurting the GOOD Churches. I have been screaming about this evil for years. Why so many sex scandals? IT HURTS MY HEART SO BAD!  I have been reporting on this evil for over 20 years now, It is is very, very, very heartbreaking. Its not just sex abuse chasing away people from the America Church, it is other things. I found this message from Matt Reynolds on sex abuse in the Church. His take on this evil is more than worth the read.  Church Leadership Scandals and the Miracle of Ordinary Faithfulness

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By Danica Kirka, posted November 12, 2024 in International News

LONDON (AP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, head of the Church of England and spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, resigned Tuesday (Nov. 12) after an investigation found that he failed to tell police about serial physical and sexual abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps as soon as he became aware of it.

Pressure on Welby had been building since Thursday, when release of the inquiry’s findings kindled anger about a lack of accountability at the highest reaches of the church.

“It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatizing period between 2013 and 2024,” Welby said in the statement announcing his resignation. “I believe that stepping aside is in the best interests of the Church of England, which I dearly love and which I have been honored to serve.”

Helen-Ann Hartley, the bishop of Newcastle, said Monday that Welby’s position was “untenable” after some members of the church’s national assembly started a petition calling on him to step down because he had “lost the confidence of his clergy.”

But the strongest outcry had come from the victims of the late John Smyth, a prominent attorney who abused teenage boys and young men at Christian summer camps in Britain, Zimbabwe and South Africa over five decades. Andrew Morse, who was repeatedly beaten by Smyth over a period of five years, said that resigning was a chance for Welby to start repairing the damage caused by the church’s handling of historical abuse cases more broadly.

“I believe that now is an opportunity for him to resign,” Morse told the BBC before Welby stepped down. “I say opportunity in the sense that this would be an opportunity for him to stand with the victims of the Smyth abuse and all victims that have not been treated properly by the Church of England in their own abuse cases.”

Welby’s resignation comes against the backdrop of widespread historical sexual abuse in the Church of England. A 2022 report by the Independent Inquiry Child Sexual Abuse found that deference to the authority of priests, taboos surrounding the discussion of sexuality and a culture that gave more support to alleged perpetrators than their victims helped make the Church of England “a place where abusers could hide.”

Welby’s supporters had argued that he had been instrumental in changing the culture of the church since he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013. More Here

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