Blessed are the poor? Really?

The C of E is rich but chooses not to fund parochial ministry in impoverished parishes

Arise ye workers from your slumbersArise ye prisoners of want …Arise (we might add) ye parishesof England! LAST MONTH I WAS IN THE unusual position of being the standard-bearer of the Left. Let money pour down like fountains on the poorer parishes of England, said I. Resist, cried the Bishops, for this would create a “dependency culture”. Remember this exchange, the next time the Lords Spiritual intervene in the Upper House on the question of Welfare. I think I need to explain further. It is a truth universally acknowledged that when a priest takes to Twitter to ask for help to prevent a roof falling in or to build a disabled loo some member of the eminently interchangeable National Secular Society or Humanists UK will pop up and demand to…

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