From Jamaica-
THE INFLUENTIAL archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, is of the view that one the challenges bedevilling the Church is the failure of leaders to accept responsibility for misdeeds.
In an interview with The Gleaner last week, Archbishop Sentamu argued that if the Church is to move forward, errant religious leaders are required to seize the opportunity to own up to their transgressions instead of indulging in pointless blame games whenever contraventions are exposed.
"I believe that anyone in leadership is in a position of trust and to betray that trust requires a greater acknowledgement than just saying I have messed up, and I am going to try to earn forgiveness from the community that I have wronged," asserted the high-ranking cleric in the Church of England.
Only the archbishop of Canterbury is higher on the hierarchy of the Anglican structure than the archbishop of York.
A Ugandan by birth, Sentamu is the 97th archbishop of York.
He lamented that whenever people commit wrong, they tended to blame something or somebody else.
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