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Christian Today

James Macintyre 12 August 2016

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, says that the Church must be a “safe place” where a “culture of silencing” must be overturned when it comes to abuse.
The Church must overturn a “culture of silencing” and be “compassionate and attentive to those who have been abused and sinned against,” the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

In a foreword to the July 2016 edition of the social ethics journal Crucible, Justin Welby says that on becoming Archbishop, he knew that safeguarding would be a key issue, “but had mistakenly believed that the major changes needed in outlook had already been achieved”.

The whole of the Archbishop’s article is devoted to the issue of safeguarding in the Church, which he says must be a “safe place” in which a “culture of silencing” must be addressed.

“To address that whole culture…