Covid has been a very big nail in the coffin for the Church of England, with Sunday church attendance just 80 per cent of what it was in 2019.
There is a lot the church got wrong and certainly in our rural corner, which had no permanent vicar before the pandemic, it was easy to feel forgotten by the god squad as the younger generation has been known to call the clergy. When my grandmother died aged 100, thankfully before the horrors of the pandemic, there was no visit from a vicar in return for her lifelong church attendance.
Mind you, these days anybody with an internet connection seems to be able to set themselves up as a commentator, with no regard for the years of training those of us of an older generation had to put in on subjects such as ethics and respecting people’s right to privacy. Her Royal Highness’s brave statement was listened to on the news, but the remote control was pressed within a matter of minutes afterwards.
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