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Religious authority in the moral maze

Religious authority in the moral maze

Has the church lost it? Does it matter?

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Melanie Phillips
Oct 16, 2020
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Michael Buerk, chairman of BBC Radio’s Moral Maze

On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we discussed the moral authority of organised religion.

A report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has described a culture of deference in the Church of England which meant that perpetrators were allowed to hide and, when exposed, were often given more …

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