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Article: DIVINE DEATH WISH; Divorce...abortion...family breakdown...drugs...corruption. For decades the Church of England has failed to provide any guidance on the great moral issues of our times. So why is it tearing itself apart over a gay but celibate priest?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2003
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Byline: STEPHEN GLOVER
SATURDAY ESSAY
THE CHURCH of England is our National Church. Few people may now attend its services regularly, yet when we are asked to fill in our religion on a form, most of us - in England as opposed to Britain - will still unthinkingly write 'C of E'.
It also happens to be my Church, in which I was brought up over 40 years ago.
My father was a Church of England vicar. If I think back to those days, I recall a Church which was sure what it believed, on a whole array of moral issues.
Bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries who sometimes came to our house were often rather intimidating men. When ...