Global Anglican Communion Leader Steps Down

The spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion and head of the Church of England has stepped down. This follows an inquiry that revealed Justin Welby neglected to notify authorities of a volunteer leader’s repeated physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse as soon as he learned about it in 2013.

In a statement released Tuesday, November 12, the achbishop of Canterbury stated, “I feel that resigning is in the best interests of the Church of England, which I dearly love and which I have been honored to serve. After the results of an independent review were released on November 7, church leaders demanded that he resign.

After some members of the church’s national parliament launched a petition demanding for Welby to resign because he had “lost the confidence of his clergy,” Newcastle’s bishop, Helen-Ann Hartley, declared Monday, November 11, that his position was “untenable.”

The victims of John Smyth, a well-known lawyer who famously beat teenage boys and young men at Christian summer camps in Britain, Zimbabwe, and South Africa for fifty years with a cane, raised the loudest protest.

According to the article, Smyth punished campers with a cane for “sins” such as “pride,” making sexual jokes, masturbating, or, in one instance, staring at a female for too long. During the attack, Smyth and the victims were at least partially.

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