Justin Welby was too overwhelmed by scale of abuse in C of E to take action

Justin Welby, the former archbishop of Canterbury, has said his failure to take effective action over a serial sadistic abuser was because he was “overwhelmed” by the scale of the abuse crisis in the Church of England. In his first interview since resigning last November, Welby said: “Every day more cases were coming across the desk that had been in the past, hadn’t been dealt with adequately, and this was just, it was another case. It was an absolutely overwhelming few weeks.” This was not an excuse, but a reason for his failures, he told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg. “The

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