CLERGY SHORTAGE
BISHOP OF DURHAM’S VIEWS. LONDON, May 8. The Bishop of Durham, at the Convocation of York, proposed that ordination to the diaconate be permissible at 21 instead of 23, to facilitate the ordination of poor candidates. He said there had been a serious decline in the quality of candidates, and the intellectual penury of many clergy was too terrible to contemplate. 'Whether it was due to the new cult.of celibacy, birth control, or to poverty, making people averse to marriage, the old recruiting area for clergy was now barren of supplies, and the shortage of candidates was threatened to bring an immense calamity on English religion.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19010, 10 May 1924, Page 5
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108CLERGY SHORTAGE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19010, 10 May 1924, Page 5
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