Is the Church trying to only be the higher clergy and not the on the ground in the community clerics?
If so, how will it survive? Just on the money made from property and high tourist fees?
Traditionally the Synod week is a free for all slurry of the Church of England's personal business in the press, broadcast to a nation who either don't care or dislike the situation intensely, as I told Baroness Nichols when she got on her high horse about the C of E's 'Good works'.
This synod seems to have been a backfire in the press in general. Headlines of 'Tribal and Divided' church, and the failure of the church to deal with domestic abuse against clergy spouses. Then there was a grand display of the church 'investigating' the Dominic Cummings PR by some Bishops - presumably the threat to withdraw from government which wasn't fulfilled, was very dangerous to the C of E.
The new Archbishop of York, whose behaviours so far do not qualify him well for Archbishop, has done his PR slurry on BBC 4 (The old middle class station which goes out of business this year), and you can imagine the old people listening and saying 'What a great and righteous man, aren't we lucky to have two Christian Archbishops! While the rest of us know the score.
I mentioned the Commons Church in my letter to the Synod, and a Daily Telegraph article about that is out. Funnily enough, although I commented that the Evening Standard claimed that the closure was due to finances, while the Church of England at the same time pledged 24 million to 'worship in deprived areas' for show. This article in the DT is by a congregant:
Another article not showing the C of E in a good light was one about domestic abuse by clergy and how it isn't dealt with, which is something I know to be true.
As well as knowing that the Diocese do not deal with domestic abuse, I know that the CDM is/was a joke run by the in-house protectors of the church and its reputation.
The other 'news headline' of the week was Welby's usual ravings, shot down by thousands of comments by the general public about his idiocy.
Wolves in Sheep's clothing is the best description for the C of E. While they rely on elderly Lords and Baronesses trying to defend them to us commoners by raging about their 'good works', which make such good works null, because Jesus taught us that such are only valid when done quietly, there is very little to hide the really nasty, calculating and power/money-interested side of the C of E.
I think this synod is their first complete belly-flop in PR terms, although I don't know for sure, I haven't been reading most of their nonsense during the last year, but this week has obviously gone catastrophically, from an unsuitable new Archbishop to the negative articles.
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