George Carey
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"George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton" is a retired Anglican bishop who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002. During his time as archbishop the Church of England ordination/ordained its first women priests and the debate over attitudes to homosexuality became more prominent, especially at the 1998 Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops.

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Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

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I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

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We must get back to a very strong Christianity. ... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

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I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time.

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An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

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Queen, Queen Mother, Queen Mum -- deeply loved and greatly missed.

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Try to put yourself in the mind-set of the war years.

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Worship comes first of course, but this (the World Cup) comes round only every four years so we can afford to be flexible.

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I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

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