Archbishop of Canterbury Resigns

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today, we look at the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

He has resigned after growing pressure due to a report which found that he did not follow up rigorously enough on reports of abuse of young boys and men by John Smyth. In his resignation letter, he said the report "exposed the long-maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of John Smyth”. Adam speaks to the BBC’s religion editor Aleem Maqbool to discuss what has changed in the past 24 hours to cause the Archbishop to resign and what it means for the Church of England. If you’ve been affected by the issues raised in this podcast, support services can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline/

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Hello, earlier on Tuesday, we did an episode of newscast all about the new legislation about assisted dying in England and Wales, which has been published by a Labour Backbencher, which will be voted on in Parliament in a few weeks' time.
0:17.8	But we're now bringing you an extra episode of newscast because there was
0:20.9	some breaking news on Tuesday afternoon, and it was the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
0:25.8	Justin Welby. It follows that damning report released last week into a cover-up in the Church of
0:31.5	England about a serious case of child sexual abuse by someone who ran Christian summer camps in the 1980s.
0:38.8	And we covered that background to that story in the episode of Newscast we did on Monday.
0:43.3	But we thought we'd bring you this latest episode to round up that breaking news.
0:47.4	So that's what we will do on this extra episode of Newscast.
0:50.3	Newscast from the BBC.
1:08.3	Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio, bringing you all the latest on the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.
1:11.1	And the person that's going to help us work our way through this story with the background and the latest developments is the BBC's religion editor, Alim McBul,
1:16.3	who is here in the studio. Hello. Hello, Adam. Right, let's just, before we go through
1:21.9	sort of the sequence of events of the day, let's just talk about Justin Welby's statement,
1:26.5	which he published on social media
1:28.0	at lunchtime. I'm sure he sent it to you too. Just what do you make of what he had to say?
1:32.5	And it's always interesting to see the reasons people give for what they're actually resigning over.
1:39.0	Actually, what was, what I was struck by was that it was very focused on the survivors of abuse,
1:45.4	which is what a lot of people have said,
1:48.2	Justin Welby, has not been enough over the last 12 years
1:52.2	and that a lot of the actions of the church have not been focused on survivors.
1:57.7	You know, he's going now. I suppose he could have put anything.
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