{"id":88655,"date":"2020-01-16T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88655"},"modified":"2020-01-16T17:51:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T22:51:07","slug":"church-times-bishops-shamed-by-bbc-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88655","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Bishops shamed by BBC documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-part programme, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m000dbq7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Exposed: The Church\u2019s dark secret<\/a><\/em>, was shown on BBC2 on Monday and Tuesday nights after the watershed. The documentary, which has been well-received by reviewers, included testimonies from victims, police, lawyers, and church officers, as well as dramatic reconstructions.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the independent chair of the National Safeguarding Panel, Meg Munn, praised survivors of Ball and their families. \u201cThe BBC documentary showed the devastating and lifelong impact of abuse,\u201d she said. \u201cThose who spoke out, showed incredible bravery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe failure to stop Peter Ball and other abusers, and the failure to bring them promptly to justice, compound the hurt and damage to victims and survivors. Failure to co-operate with police by high-ranking clergy, including a former Archbishop, is truly shocking. Those who failed victims should consider their position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the changes in the Church\u2019s hierarchy and culture that she has witnessed, she said: \u201cThese are necessary, but not sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the church structure, each diocese is effectively a fiefdom, and significant power rests with diocesan bishops. Last year, one diocese refused to share safeguarding information with another diocese. It took a number of months to resolve the issue, possibly exposing people to risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2020\/17-january\/news\/uk\/bishops-shamed-by-bbc-documentary\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchofengland<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bathwellsbish?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bathwellsbish<\/a>\u2069 \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlosDioc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GlosDioc<\/a>\u2069<br \/>\n\u201cFailure to co-operate with police by high-ranking clergy, including a former Archbishop, is truly shocking. Those who failed victims should consider their position.\u201d \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChurchTimes<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yVHwConNpJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/yVHwConNpJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Adams (@JohnAdamsEbble) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnAdamsEbble\/status\/1217759626621530112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-part programme, Exposed: The Church\u2019s dark secret, was shown on BBC2 on Monday and Tuesday nights after the watershed. The documentary, which has been well-received by reviewers, included testimonies from victims, police, lawyers, and church officers, as well as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88655\">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":[389,635,133,435,184,112,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-history","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-sexuality","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655","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=88655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88659,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88655\/revisions\/88659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}