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Governing Body of the Church in Wales

April and September 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2016

Lynette Chandler*
Affiliation:
Solicitor to the Province of Wales

Extract

In his address to the April meeting, the archbishop raised questions about the high business rates placed on the steel industry in the UK and the crisis faced by Welsh steelworkers, the elections for members of the Welsh Assembly and the forthcoming referendum on Europe. He reminded the Governing Body that the right to vote was won at a price and that, as Christians, we had a moral duty to exercise that right. The archbishop, considering the recent death of his wife, Hilary, also spoke of bereavement and dying in general. Palliative care and the hospice movement had come a long way in fifty years; if he had not already been persuaded by the arguments against assisted dying, watching the care and the gentleness of hospice nurses, for whom nothing was too much trouble, would have convinced him.

Type
Synod Reports
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2016 

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References

4 Constitution of the Church in Wales, Chapter IV C: ‘Regulations relating to parochial administration’, Part IV, Rule 14(3), available at <http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/resources/constitution-handbooks/constitution-of-church-in-wales/4c-regulations-relating-to-parochial-administration>, accessed 12 October 2016.

5 The pastoral letter and associated documents are available at <http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/faith/believe/admission-to-holy-communion-pastoral-letter/> accessed 1 October 2016.