The people in charge of giving grants to churches to preserve, repair and refurbish buildings don’t understand the purpose of a Catholic church, according to the bishop in charge of worship and liturgy.
Archbishop George Stack, chairman of the patrimony committee of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, criticised the Heritage Lottery Fund during a speech on church design.
Giving the St Bede annual liturgy lecture at Ealing Abbey on Saturday, the Archbishop of Cardiff said that the Heritage Lottery Fund which had benefited many churches in recent years had now changed its policy on places of worship and had no idea of what a sacred space was.
