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ARCHBISHOP DEREK Worlock of Liverpool this week confirmed the Church's support for the Archbishop of Canterbury's report on urban priority areas, and commended the opportunity it provides for ecumenical co-operation in inner cities.
Delivering the Gore Lecture in Westminster Abbey on Wednesday, Archbishop Worlock reminded his audience that the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales had commended the report to Catholic clergy last month, and stressed the benefit of an ecumenical approach to pastoral care in deprived areas where populations have been displaced and the number of religious ministers diminished.
In villages where everyone knows each other, he said, few old people We alone or of hypothermia. "It is the same in an inner city where pastoral concern for the whole community is organised on an ecumenical basis".
The Archbishop's address was given at the end of the second day of the Church of England's General Synod in London, which was expected to recommend a course of action stemming from Faith in the City, the report published in December by the Archbishop's Commission on Urban Priority Areas.
The sermon came in the wake of criticism from the Rev Richard Jones, chairman of the East Anglia district of the Methodist church, who said in the Methodist Recorder last week that the commission seemed to be ignoring other mainstream churches.
Priests who hope to bring estranged inner city Christians back to the church must realise the necessity of getting close to these people's lives, and helping them to recognise Christ "in the very joys and sorrows which govern their lives", Archbishop Worlock said.
• Following up the recommendation in Faith in the City that housing finance should be thoroughly examined, the Catholic Housing Aid Society has produced a report Housing Taxation: Owner-Occupation and the reform of Housing Finance? which recommends the retention of mortgage relief, but the introduction of a tax on the income that home owners enjoy as a result of owning their houses.
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