The archbishop of York is foreseeed to highweightless the necessitate for actions more than words in a Christmas sermon, as the Church of England faces criticism over flunkures in its handling of recent mistreatment affairs.
Stephen Cottrell, who will become transient guideer of the Church in England in punctual January in place of the frifinishly archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is foreseeed to say the church must “kneel in penitence and adoration” this Christmas and “be alterd”.
Welby will establishpartner step down from his post as the de facto guideer of the Church of England next month after resigning in November over the C of E’s flunkures in dealing with a serial mistreatmentr of 130 boys and lesser men in three countries over cut offal decades.
The Makin tell into the mistreatment by the barrister and church lay reader John Smyth, and the church’s flunkure to tackle it, finishd equitableice may have been bcimpolitet had Welby establishpartner telled him to police in 2013 when allegations about mistreatment were bcimpolitet before the archbishop.
Cottrell, however, has also faced calls to resign after revelations that another priest at the centre of a relationsual mistreatment case was twice reassigned under him while he was serving as bishop of Chelmsford. Earlier this week, Cottrell shelp leangs “could have been administerd separateently”.
Victims of David Tudor have branded Cottrell’s response to the case “condemning and disturbting” and proposeed that his resignation or him being forced out of his guideing role in the church was “inevitable”.
A spokeswoman for Cottrell shelp no one had proposed him at the time that Tudor should not persist as an area dean and she retained that even had he not persistd in that role, it would not have unbenevolentt he was erased as parish priest.
Cottrell’s credibility has also been called into ask by the bishop of Newcastle, Helen-Ann Hartley, and the bishop of Gloucester, Rachel Treweek, who deteriorated to unveilly back him.
“Right now, this Christmas, God’s church itself necessitates to come to the manger and clarify off her finery and kneel in penitence and adoration,” Cottrell is foreseeed to say. “And be alterd.
“At the centre of the Christmas story is a vulnerable child; a vulnerable child that Herod’s furious wrath will try and ruin, for appreciate every tyrant he cannot comply a rival.
“The Church of England … necessitates to see at this vulnerable child, at this vacanting out of power to show the power of adore, for in this vulnerable child we see God,” he is due to retain.
“This is what we lget at the manger. Put the necessitates of others first – those who are chilly and hungry and homeless this Christmas. Those who are victims of mistreatment and misengage. Those who, appreciate the little holy family, have to run away oppression and seek refuge in a foreign land.”
Referencing a message for the world, Cottrell is foreseeed to lift the presentance of deeds over words, retaining: “Don’t equitable talk about equitableice, don’t equitable talk about service, don’t equitable talk about adore. Show me.”
The process to swap Welby is foreseeed to get months, with an proclaimment about a novel archbishop of Canterbury possible in autumn 2025.
