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Thank you Michael for your article. Having had personal insight into just how well the CofE doesn’t do safeguarding concerns about clergy abuse, it all rings so utterly true. And it is very hard not to treat such an organisation with contempt. No wonder so many people don’t bother with us any longer.
Last week I (alone, it would seem, among the people at my church) received a ‘safeguarding quiz’ from our bishop; one question asked ‘Do you feel safe at church?’ Well, the obvious answer to that is “If I didn’t, I wouldn’t go.”