Vicars in their knickers: Church mag dumbs down

DuMBiNG-DOWN seems to have reached the once-respected Church Times.

in the week a French priest was murdered at his altar, the latest issue of the newspaper ignores that terrible news on its front page and instead features a photograph of a blonde vicar in a fashion-model pose, throwing back her head in laughter and showing a fine set of teeth. She is wearing what looks like a fur-lined jacket and the headline is ‘Farewell to frumpy: women and clergy vesture’.

inside is a two-page article by the reverend Joanna Jepson which tells of a female ordinand wearing red silk knickers on the day that she officially became a vicar.

is it any wonder that islam is on the rise when the Church of england’s main newspaper is so vacuous?