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He has criticised society's "moral confusion": "we preach a liberal attitude to relationships and allow the media and commercial interests to prey on our young people, so that they are turned into little adults long before their time. Then we shake our heads in dismay and shame when we learn that we
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Conry has stated that the Catholic Church supports civil partnerships, because they can confer to couples, including homosexual couples, legal protection in matters such as inheritance. However, he has questioned the need to apply the term "marriage" to homosexual partnerships, saying that marriage
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In a May 2009 pastoral letter, he urged a more adult approach to the sacrament of reconciliation: "Go to the priest and talk about these things, the way in which your relationship with God might have grown stale. Because sin is ultimately something that damages our relationship with God. It is not
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On 27 September 2014, Conry announced his resignation as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton with immediate effect for having "been unfaithful to promises as a Catholic priest" and bringing "shame" on the diocese and the Church. In his statement, he asked for prayer and forgiveness. He announced his
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From 1988 to 1993, Conry was a member of the National Conference of Priests, and its Vice-Chairman from 1992 to 1993. He was also Chairman of the Birmingham City Centre Churches from 1992 to 1993. From 1993 to 2000, he was involved with training counsellors for Catholic Marriage Care.
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Conry has said that society has lost its sense of the transcendent and urged Christians to "proclaim the gospel into a void that needs to be filled if we are to find our way again; there is a space in all people that can only be filled by God".
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Conry has been critical of going to confession regularly, saying that, in his experience, people would always come back saying the same things week after week, suggesting that no interior conversion or repentance was actually taking place.
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newspaper published in December 2008, he was reported to have said that it does not make much sense to talk about salvation to young people "unless you speak in their own language."
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From the beginning of 1994 to 2001, Conry was Director of the Catholic Media Office in London, the press office of the Bishop's Conference of England & Wales, and also editor of
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resignation when it became apparent that the press was about to out the fact that he had been having an affair with an adult married woman. On 4 October 2014,
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caters for a small group of people. He added that he had never refused permission when a group of people asked if they could celebrate it in his diocese.
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In 1976, Conry returned to Cotton College to teach English literature and religious education. In 1980 he became the private secretary to the
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Conry has argued against changing the date of Easter in a sense that would separate it from its Jewish roots of
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In November 2009, he clarified statements in his May pastoral letter, following a complaint to the
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On 8 May 2001, Conry was appointed the fourth Bishop of Arundel and Brighton by
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have the highest teenage pregnancy in the EU, six times higher than Holland."
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Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and English Martyrs, St Leonards-on-Sea
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and educated at All Souls Roman Catholic Primary School, Coventry, and
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as "the permanent union of a man and a woman" should be protected.
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Our Lady Immaculate and St Philip Neri Church, Uckfield
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Conry issued regular pastoral messages to his diocese.
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accepted his resignation. He has not been laicized.
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Friary Church of St Francis and St Anthony, Crawley
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