{"id":23170,"date":"2015-07-13T15:19:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23170"},"modified":"2015-07-13T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T21:53:34","slug":"church-of-england-brings-back-defrocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-of-england-brings-back-defrocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of England brings back defrocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the last twelve years, there was nothing a Church of England vicar could do to earn expulsion from the priesthood. During that time, like naughty children, many vicars have worked diligently to see just how far they could go before provoking some kind of reaction from above. It seems that paedophilia is the tipping point \u2013 as of today, that is; paedophilia is already starting to be viewed as just another orientation<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>so, in a few years it may receive a generous pastoral response<\/em> \u2013 and paedophile vicars are to lose their licences. In the spirit of diversity, atheist vicars<\/a>, are still welcome.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Church of England is to restore its traditional powers to defrock vicars who break the law, Church leaders said yesterday. (Sun)<\/p>\n

The punishment of expulsion from the priesthood \u2013 abolished 12 years ago \u2013 is to be reinstated as a demonstration of the Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s determination to stamp out child abuse.<\/p>\n

Restoration of the most severe penalty for clergy guilty of sex abuse or other crimes was revealed after the Most Reverend Justin Welby told a survivors group that the Church is ready to launch its own examination of the extent of child sex abuse by priests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last twelve years, there was nothing a Church of England vicar could do to earn expulsion from the priesthood. During that time, like naughty children, many vicars have worked diligently to see just how far they could go … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[2089,1876],"class_list":["post-23170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","tag-church-of-england","tag-paedophile-anglican-priests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}