{"id":133219,"date":"2024-12-05T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133219"},"modified":"2024-12-05T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:29:33","slug":"church-times-i-had-to-stand-down-archbishop-welby-tells-house-of-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133219","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) \u2018I had to stand down,\u2019 Archbishop Welby tells House of Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A head had to roll for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/safeguarding\">safeguarding<\/a>\u00a0failures in the Church of England, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-canterbury\">Archbishop of Canterbury<\/a>\u2019s is the only one that \u201crolls well enough\u201d, Archbishop Welby told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/house-of-lords\">House of Lords<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He began his valedictory speech with some remarks about his decision to resign \u2014 the first public comments that he has made since the statement three weeks ago announcing his decision (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/15-november\/news\/uk\/archbishop-of-canterbury-announces-resignation\">News, 12 November<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that there comes a time, if you are technically leading a particular institution or area of responsibility, where the shame of what has gone wrong, whether one is personally responsible or not, must require a head to roll. And there is only, in this case, one head that rolls well enough,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2024\/6-december\/news\/uk\/i-had-to-stand-down-archbishop-welby-tells-house-of-lords\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018I had to stand down,\u2019 Archbishop Welby tells House of Lords <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I0ji3ArbyE\">https:\/\/t.co\/I0ji3ArbyE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1864750666159145017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A head had to roll for\u00a0safeguarding\u00a0failures in the Church of England, and the\u00a0Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s is the only one that \u201crolls well enough\u201d, Archbishop Welby told the\u00a0House of Lords\u00a0on Thursday. He began his valedictory speech with some remarks about his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133219\">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":[382,67,324,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england","category-ethics-moral-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133219","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=133219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133223,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133219\/revisions\/133223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}