Bishop’s feeble welcome for freedom
by Julian Mann, The Conservative Woman:
THE Bishop of London sounds hardly overjoyed that Christian people can once again sing hymns together in church after Freedom Day.
After the Prime Minister announced the government’s intention to lift restrictions on communal worship and singing, the Rt Rev Dame Sarah Mullally, who chairs the Church of England’s ‘Covid Recovery Group’, intoned:
‘The vaccination programme has been an answer to prayer but, while it has transformed the outlook of the pandemic, it has not eliminated all risk. So it is right, as the Prime Minister has said, that we all must exercise personal responsibility and carefully manage the risks from Covid-19.
‘We have also all made sacrifices and seen previously unimaginable changes to our way of life as we sought to protect one another and especially those who are most vulnerable. In churches that has meant unprecedented restrictions on the way we practise our faith itself, affecting our ability to meet together, to sing together and to celebrate the sacraments together, all of which are at the heart of our worship.
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