The rot goes deep

Hwyl fawr to the Archbishop of Wales, but does the Church in Wales need to dig deeper to really fix things?

Hello! Only one place to start today: the resignation sorry, ‘retirement’, of the Archbishop of Wales. The pressure on him over the sprawling crisis at Bangor Cathedral ultimately became too much to bear. We look at why he went, what the damning central church statement (eventually published after he had already gone) reveals about the church’s dysfunction, and why this relatively small denomination seems to lose so many bishops to scandal.

Then we look across the border at the Diocese of Leicester, which has managed to stumble into its own scandal which somehow encompasses almost all the Church of England’s issues. We have race, sexuality, church planting, lay ministry and much more, all triggered by a bizarre stalking episode from a one-time rising star of the diocese.

Then there’s the second half of our podcast discussion on parliament’s vote to decriminalise abortion, and a list of interesting links to church news stories from around the web (including why the bishops were afraid …