Church of England 'is like failing coffee chain' says bishop

By Steve Doughty
9th November 2010

A bishop who is converting to Rome has likened the Church of England to a ‘coffee chain going out of business’.

The Right Reverend Andrew Burnham, Bishop of Ebbsfleet, said there were signs the Church was losing a sense of where it came from.

He said: ‘If Costa Coffee, every time you went to a branch, did something different and you didn’t know what the product was, they would go out of business.

‘We have got to the stage now in the Church of England where there are so many different products that you don’t know what you’re going to get.’ the rest