Lord Carey Quits Church Role Over ‘Cover-Up’ Of Paedophile Bishop
Carol Adl
YourNewsWire.com
June 27, 2017
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey resigned from his role in the Church of England yesterday after an inquiry found he colluded with senior clergy and establishment figures to protect paedophile bishop Peter Ball.
Carey quit his position as honorary Assistant Bishop of Oxford after he was accused of helping to ‘deliberately conceal’ evidence which helped the paedophile bishop escape prosecution for 22 years.
Ball, was the former Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester and also friend of Prince Charles. He was finally jailed for 32 months in October 2015 after admitting sex offences against 18 teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s.
The Mail Online reports:
Justin Welby, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, had asked Lord Carey to ‘carefully consider his position’ after the independent review by Dame Moira Gibb branded the Church’s response to the scandal ‘lamentable’.
The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend Dr Steven Croft, said: ‘I have met with Lord Carey following the Archbishop’s letter to him.
‘Lord Carey has resigned from his role as honorary Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Oxford.
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