Anglican Church Considers Employee Status for Clergy to Increase Accountability | EWTN News Nightly
- Preacher
- Mother Angelica
- Tradition
- Roman Catholic
- Published
- Length
- 5:22
About this sermon
In the UK, a new report says that priests in the Anglican Church of England could soon be classified as employees. The move would upend centuries of tradition. The idea is from the Archbishop of York. Bishop Stephen Cottrell says the change to an employee-employer relationship would make it easier to discipline priests and could lead to increased accountability, especially regarding claims of sexual abuse. The Times of London reports that the proposal left some clergy "horrified". Former Anglican priest from England and now Catholic priest and pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, South Carolina, Fr. Dwight Longenecker, joins to tell us more about this proposal from a clergy perspective. Fr. Dwight shares how many priests in the Church of England are classified now and how radical this change would be. Fr. Dwight discusses the reaction to this proposal. He responds to the Archbishop of York's claims that the employee status would be better for accountability. Fr. Dwight explains whether anything like that could happen in the Catholic Church. ------------ EWTN News Nightly provides the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Join host Tracy Sabol, our Capitol Hill, White House and Rome Correspondents, as well as many other diverse guests daily, to get the latest from the U.S. and the Vatican on topics regarding our Catholic faith and interests. ------------- EWTN News Nightly airs on EWTN weekdays at 6pm & 9pm ET. ------------ Don't miss an episode of EWTN New Nightly. Get updates here: https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/ewtn-news-nightly ------------- Sign up today to receive the EWTN News Nightly newsletter: https://www.ewtn.com/enn ------------- Follow EWTN News Nightly on Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ewtnnewsnightly Twitter: https://twitter.com/EWTNNewsNightly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewtnnewsnightly/ ------------- Subscribe to EWTN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/user/EWTN ------------- You can support the EWTN News mission: https://bit.ly/3qDR1qf
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