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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigns after report into his knowledge of sexual abuse (www.abc.net.au)

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned five days after a report found he likely knew about the actions of a serial abuser spanning decades.

John Smyth physically and sexually abused over 100 boys and young men over decades, until shortly before his death in 2018.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Religious leader protecting sex offenders?

[–] CityPop 7 points 5 days ago

This is basically the Anglican pope as well.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh he's so he resigned after other people found out something he already knew for a very long time, huh?

How soon are people going after him with the baseball bat?

All these hate crimes of individual practitioners but not enough of these people in knowledge of this bullshit and in charge of hiding it

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For what it's worth, he feels really bad that he got caught.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Man, kind of random thought but- if he was caught like a mouse gets caught in a trap When people say he feels bad about getting caught then I would be like yeah, okay fair enough.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

i sympathize with your thought process

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago

Not a drag queen (or a drag queen ally in this instance?)

[–] ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Resigned to run for the highest office in the country you mean?