Cardinal Unhappy With “Blame Game”
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The Catholic primate of England, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor, has warned against just blaming the government for a spread of morality. His comments come after five Anglican bishops questioned the morality of the government’s policies on spending.
The bishops of Winchester, Hulme, Durham, Manchester and Carlisle were reported in the Sunday Telegraph as saying that the UK was beset by family breakdown, debt and poverty.
The Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Reverend Nigel McCulloch claimed that the government “encouraged greed and a love of money that the Bible says is the root of all evil”. Separately, the Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, accused the government of telling people to spend more, which he says is “irresponsible” and morally suspect”.
When asked for his opinion, Cardinal Murphy O’Connor said he was “not too happy with the blame game…If we are going to accuse people of immorality it is much further than the government, it is the whole country.” He went on to say, “Obviously, governments have a particular responsibility but so have the people, so have the cities, so have the communities; I always think that a change of heart begins locally. You can’t bring it about just by government”.
When asked about the claim by one of the bishops that that the government had been “beguiled by money”, he replied, “I do not think that is the whole truth at all”.