Bishop compares disgraced Welby to God

The Church of England has received a rather lot of bad press, to put it mildly, after the Archbishop of Canterbury was forced to resign over the handling of a child abuse scandal. Now, rather than let salvation take its course, the Bishop of Dover has decided to wade into the conversation with some rather irreverent comments of her own.

The right reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin appeared on Thursday’s episode of the Times’ Off Air podcast with hosts Jane and Fi. But rather than settling into a saintly chinwag with the pod’s presenters, the Bishop of Dover became rather irate over the issue of Welby’s departure. Mr S would remind readers that the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury quit the top job last November after the publication of the Makin Review’s report on Church’s handling of the ‘serial child abuser’ John Smyth. Good heavens…

Despite Welby himself confessing his ‘long felt and profound sense of shame at the historic safeguarding failures of the Church of England’, Hudson-Wilkin seems unable to accept the situation.