Use Jubilee to Restore Moral Values, Says Bishop
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH:
One of the country’s leading bishops has called for people to use the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee as an opportunity to restore the nation’s moral values.
The Rt Rev Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, said promiscuity, separation and divorce have reached epidemic proportions in Britain and that the Jubilee was an opportunity to think about the kind of environment being bequeathed to future generations.
He said although people were better off since the Queen’s accession to the throne in 1952, material progress had come at the expense of equality and communal life.
Writing in a Bible Society pamphlet, Dr Chartres says: “Britain is indeed a better place today materially than ever before, but that material progress has been at the expense of our relationships with one another, our communal life. Within families, within communities, within society as a whole, our relationships are more strained, more fragile, more broken than we care to recognise.”
» | Patrick Sawer | Saturday, June 02, 2012
