Archbishop is a bastard

[PurpleGorilla]

Gobsh1te

That will be three hail Mary's.

[MarillionFan]

Yawn

Gobsh1te

[PurpleGorilla]

I went and bought the Telegraph yesterday to read this story as it looked interesting.


About 8 pages, this was a well researched, interesting piece of Journalism, with links to Churchill and Lady Churchill, moonlight flits, alcoholism, redemption, drunken abusive stepfathers. All based on a rumour someone had told the journo years earlier, he'd done some great investigations for what was a possible rumour. The real father suspected, and on his death bed wanted to see the Archbishop, who was just a few days late. He took the DNA to quash the rumour and discovered it to be true.


From such hard beginnings, the new Archbishop (I didn't know) had worked as a six figure oil executive until 1987 when he changed tack and became a priest. This was in no part due to the fact, that he'd lost his infant daughter in a car crash a few years earlier.


When the revelation came about, he took it all in his stride and his mum fezzed up straight away. Great story, great journalism, I think will win best story of the year at any awards later this year.


I've got a great amount of respect for our new Archbishop. A real role model for those from hard backgrounds (ok, excluding his Eton background obviously)

Yawn

[MarillionFan]

I went and bought the Telegraph yesterday to read this story as it looked interesting.


About 8 pages, this was a well researched, interesting piece of Journalism, with links to Churchill and Lady Churchill, moonlight flits, alcoholism, redemption, drunken abusive stepfathers. All based on a rumour someone had told the journo years earlier, he'd done some great investigations for what was a possible rumour. The real father suspected, and on his death bed wanted to see the Archbishop, who was just a few days late. He took the DNA to quash the rumour and discovered it to be true.


From such hard beginnings, the new Archbishop (I didn't know) had worked as a six figure oil executive until 1987 when he changed tack and became a priest. This was in no part due to the fact, that he'd lost his infant daughter in a car crash a few years earlier.


When the revelation came about, he took it all in his stride and his mum fezzed up straight away. Great story, great journalism, I think will win best story of the year at any awards later this year.


I've got a great amount of respect for our new Archbishop. A real role model for those from hard backgrounds (ok, excluding his Eton background obviously)

[vetran]

oops

Should be an interesting sermon on Sunday.

[barrydidit]

Not a fat bastard though, so that's one thing he's got over FLC

[NotAllThere]

But that hasn't been an impediment to archbishopness for a while, so he's ok.

Archbishop of Canterbury learns real father was Churchill's private secretary - BBC News