Church should help poor, not blame rich

From the London Telegraph. (Take that House of Bishops)

We don’t notice the House of Bishops condemning the money-makers when there’s a cathedral roof to be repaired or an Anglican conference to be subsidised. More broadly, these pious primates don’t object to there being plenty in the public purse for overseas development, healthcare and social provision, all of which naturally benefit from prosperous markets.

The trouble with some of today’s bishops is that they are steeped in the immature student politics of class warfare of the Sixties and Seventies. They have none of the grand vision of a social gospel that informed Archbishops Charles Gore and William Temple in the economic deprivations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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