
Leader comment: Transfer? The Commissioners’ commitments
RESPONDING to last year’s General Synod debate on clergy pay and pensions, and requests that the Church Commissioners enable them to rise, the First Commissioner, Alan Smith, reminded the Synod of what had happened in 1992 when — in the later words of the Commons’ Social Security Committee — the Commissioners had “done more than any other single act to destroy the parish system of the national Church”
31 Jan 2025