We sat down with the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.
We began by asking for his reaction to a report revealing that senior members of the Church of England ‘covered up’ abuse perpetrated by one of its members for more than 40 years.I take responsibility for the consequences and for dealing with it now, since I was archbishop. When the abuse took place in the UK, I was in my late teens, early 20s. Some of it was before I had come to Christian faith. Many years before I was ordained.
No suspicions at all? You’d just been informed of the seriousness of John Smyth’s abuse in 2013.I was told there was an accusation of abuse, and this is where I went wrong. Safeguarding, at that point, had one person for the national part of the Church of England half time. We’re now around 40. And those are reforms I brought in myself.
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