Bishop Carl Cooper And Joy, A Prayer
THE tabloids love a good vicar sex story. Like a smutty vicar in a Benny Hill sketch they lust for what they condemn.
So to today’s story in the Mail that the Rt Reverend Carl Cooper has not been having an extra-martial affair with the Reverend Mandy Williams-Potter, billed as his “communications officer”.
“Church officials” in the diocese of St David’s in Pembrokeshire “have been told Bishop Cooper has a ‘close working relationship’ with Mrs Williams-Potter”.
The Mail says the Bishop’s marriage to a certain Joy of 25-years is at an end. The Mail says he “often appears to have reason to visit her house during the day”, when he husband is out at work.
Bishop Carl (a trendy vicar, perhaps, who visits Mrs Williams-Potter in “smart trousers and shirt and jumper”) says no-one else is involved in the breakdown of his marriage.
Mrs Williams-Potter says: “The bishop and I are just good friends.” She adds: “My husband and I live in the same house.”
The Mail says that 18 months ago “she had to deal with inquiries about a priest who resigned over an ‘inappropriate relationship’.”
And that’s it.
Only vicars Will Strange and Peter Jones want the matter investigated. “For us as clergy to do any less would be to acquiescent in a situation which is causing distress across the dioceses to many both lay and ordained.”
Says the Archbishop: “My thought and prayers are with Bishop Carl and Joy.”
Posted: 6th, March 2008 | In: Tabloids Comments (13) | TrackBack | Permalink
