You know that feeling when you are a kid and you decide to ignore the adult’s advice and run down a hill – there is that moment when you just know that your body is somehow going faster that your feet and there is nothing, nothing at all which is going to stop you falling. That rather nasty, sickly feeling of knowing that we are about to corporately hit the ground, and its going to hurt, is how I am feeling about the whole St. Paul’s debacle.
I have been running the line of “ignore it and it will go away” but with the article in the Independent suggesting a cover-up from a report written about salaries and bonuses in the financial sector and then not released I can feel the whole thing lurching forward into a toppling position. Add to that another resignation (all be it of a chaplain who is a curate elsewhere) and another chapter member threatening to go, and the whole thing seems to be lurching precipitously.
The Dean and Chapter are responsible, of course, for the best interests of the mission and ministry of St. Paul’s. But with a cathedral which is so much a part of national life, it is not quite as simple as that. Of course one should not comment on things which one only reads in the Newspapers or hears on the television news – who knows what is really going on behind the scenes – but I just hope, for the sake of the message which we all proclaim, that there can be transparency and a respect for humanity as things move forward. I can feel myself wanting to side with the protesters – but I am not sure what I am protecting.
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