UNITED KINGDOM
Heney Standard
THE former Archbishop of Canterbury cancelled an engagement in Wargrave following revelations that he failed to report child sex abuse in the Nineties.
Lord Carey, 81, who stepped down from his latest role in the Church of England on Monday following a review of the case, was due to speak at a service at St Mary’s Church on Sunday to mark the end of the Wargrave Village Festival.
But last week, he visited Wargrave vicar Rev John Cook to say he would not be coming after all.
Lord Carey served as archbishop from 1991 to 2002 and was more recently honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford.
He was asked to resign by the current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby after being criticised in a review of the church’s handling of abuse carried out by Bishop Peter Ball. The review by Dame Moira Gibb said Lord Carey had failed to pass information on Ball, who was jailed in 2015, to the police in 1992.
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