Meanwhile, the London branch of Occupy Wall Street, camping outside St. Paul's Cathedral, stirred up a storm in... The Church of England (!!!)
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Originally Posted by NY Times
One of the cathedral’s top officials, Canon Giles Fraser, had already resigned, saying he could not accept a forcible dismantling of the camp
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it goes to the core of a theological dilemma the church has faced for centuries: whether, and when, as the country’s “established” church, with the monarch as its head, it should follow the social radicalism that Jesus demonstrated when he overturned the money lenders’ tables in the temple, or act, in effect, as a handmaiden of the prevailing social and political order.
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New York Times report
Guardian columnist pov <3 Marina Hyde