{"id":67976,"date":"2018-02-06T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67976"},"modified":"2018-02-06T19:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:00:20","slug":"archbp-welby-under-pressure-as-general-synod-members-asked-to-back-motion-of-regret-over-bishop-george-bell-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67976","title":{"rendered":"Archbp Welby under pressure as General Synod members asked to back motion of &#8216;regret&#8217; over Bishop George Bell case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury will be under renewed pressure at the Church of England&#8217;s ruling General Synod this week to renounce his claim that a &#8216;significant cloud&#8217; remains over George Bell, a highly-respected bishop accused of sex abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Members of synod, which acts as the church&#8217;s parliament, are today being asked to back a motion expressing &#8216;regret&#8217; over Justin Welby&#8217;s handling of the case and calling for Bishop Bell&#8217;s &#8216;reputation as one of the great bishops of the Church of England is restored untarnished&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The motion, seen by Christian Today, will be published as synod opens on Thursday after being approved by the church&#8217;s lawyers. It will not be debated at this week&#8217;s sessions but could be discussed at the next synod in July, if it receives enough support&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/welby.under.pressure.as.general.synod.members.asked.to.back.motion.of.regret.over.bishop.george.bell.case\/125358.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury will be under renewed pressure at the Church of England&#8217;s ruling General Synod this week to renounce his claim that a &#8216;significant cloud&#8217; remains over George Bell, a highly-respected bishop accused of sex abuse. Members of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67976\">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":[382,175,67,186,389,635,168,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67976","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=67976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67978,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67976\/revisions\/67978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}