{"id":132728,"date":"2024-11-15T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132728"},"modified":"2024-11-15T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:35:31","slug":"church-times-archbishop-of-canterburys-resignation-is-not-enough-say-smyth-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132728","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s resignation is not enough, say Smyth survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the survivors of Smyth\u2019s abuse, Mark Stibbe, said in an interview with&nbsp;<em>Channel 4 News<\/em>&nbsp;on Tuesday evening that \u201cIf there are senior clergy who have broken the law then they need to be called to account.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, in a briefing hosted by the Religion Media Centre, Mr Stibbe said that the \u201cquality of leadership\u201d among bishops needed to be a priority, as changes to safeguarding processes were developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel that the top echelon of leadership in the Church of England has this disconnect from reality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the\u00a0<em>Church Times\u00a0<\/em>on Wednesday morning, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/bishop-of-dover\">Bishop of Dover<\/a>, the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, said that, when reading the Makin report, she had been \u201cshocked and saddened\u201d by the \u201cextent of the abuse that the survivors suffered\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/15-november\/news\/uk\/archbishop-of-canterbury-s-resignation-is-not-enough-say-smyth-survivors\">Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Survivors of John Smyth\u2019s campaign of abuse have called for further resignations, after the Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s announcement that he would take \u201cpersonal and institutional responsibility\u201d and resign.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gHiKy247qc\">https:\/\/t.co\/gHiKy247qc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1857281245622759647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the survivors of Smyth\u2019s abuse, Mark Stibbe, said in an interview with&nbsp;Channel 4 News&nbsp;on Tuesday evening that \u201cIf there are senior clergy who have broken the law then they need to be called to account.\u201d Later, in a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132728\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,175,67,389,168,177,112,110,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-teens-youth","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132732,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132728\/revisions\/132732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}