In a New Year message, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Michael Perham, said that his hope for the nation was “that we will find ways of supporting those most affected by the recession” and “learn the lessons that will create a society less obsessed with material wealth”.
The Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, Dr Geoffrey Rowell, said that the economic crisis could be “as significant as the fall of the Berlin Wall in changing the world”.
Dr Williams, interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, said that the credit crunch was a “reality check”. Sooner or later, people had “to ask what are we assembling or accumulating wealth for”.
Acknowledging that it was “suicidÂally silly” for him to comÂment on the economy, because he was “not an economist by any stretch of the imagination”, the ArchÂbishop said that he wanted to ask where the “moral questions are in the economic discourse”.
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Church Times: Church of England Bishops address nation that has spent beyond its means
In a New Year message, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Michael Perham, said that his hope for the nation was “that we will find ways of supporting those most affected by the recession” and “learn the lessons that will create a society less obsessed with material wealth”.
The Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, Dr Geoffrey Rowell, said that the economic crisis could be “as significant as the fall of the Berlin Wall in changing the world”.
Dr Williams, interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, said that the credit crunch was a “reality check”. Sooner or later, people had “to ask what are we assembling or accumulating wealth for”.
Acknowledging that it was “suicidÂally silly” for him to comÂment on the economy, because he was “not an economist by any stretch of the imagination”, the ArchÂbishop said that he wanted to ask where the “moral questions are in the economic discourse”.
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