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St. James Cathedral supports Occupy Toronto – up to a point

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From here:

The City of Toronto has issued a notice under the Trespass to Property Act requiring Occupy Toronto to remove tents, shelters, structures, equipment and debris from St. James Park.

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Our primary concern is for the safety of the most vulnerable members of the Occupy Toronto movement. We are also looking to find a way to continue the conversation around the issues raised by the movement.
The Very Reverend Douglas Stoute, Dean of Toronto & Rector of St. James Cathedral

However, it seems that the Dean doesn’t want to “continue the conversation” inside the cathedral:

the Anglican dean of Toronto said protesters cannot use the adjacent St. James Cathedral to evade eviction if the court rules they must leave. The church owns some of the land next to the cathedral but the city owns the rest.

The Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, on the other hand, has announced something he may live to regret:

The Archbishop of Wales has said he would allow anti-capitalist protesters to shelter overnight in Llandaff Cathedral if they set up camp outside.

I used to live in rooms just around the corner from Llandaff Cathedral for about £4 per week. Had I known the Cathedral was prone to offering free accommodation, I would have moved in there.

Archbishop of Wales doesn’t understand the tenth commandment

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First to give Barry Morgan some credit, he appears to understand that Jer. 17:9 applies to everyone, rich and poor alike, which is in itself something of a breakthrough for an archbishop.

ARCHBISHOP of Wales Barry Morgan yesterday warned that the British elite must put their own house in order as the country reels from the riots that shattered neighbourhoods across England last week.

Speaking shortly after Prime David Cameron condemned the UK’s “slow-motion moral collapse”, the Welsh Anglican leader warned that “desperate” young people had been set a poor example and Britain’s boardrooms needed a “clean sweep”.

Dr Morgan lambasted the “greed and selfishness” which existed at the top of society.

Unfortunately, Barry Morgan’s remedy for the fact that all men are sinners is for the successful sinners to work harder at being less successfully sinful , thereby presenting less of a temptation to covet to those of us not occupying boardrooms.

The irony here is that the real solution is right under the nose of the poor befuddled archbishop: yes, that’s right! His own church has the answer: Jesus took the sins of the poor and the rich upon himself. Too simple for the archbishop, I suppose. Still, maybe it will eventually come to him as he lounges in his bishop’s palace sipping sherry.