An interesting story has cropped up at the Daily Telegraph which tells us: “The Church of England will appoint a new bishop to reach out to ethnic minorities because it is seen as too 'quintessentially English'".
This is loaded with historical ironies. If you are going to have a national Church, this surely is the danger you will run: it will appeal to the nation, but not to others outside the nation. National appeal will come at the expense of catholicity. This is something that Henry VIII never thought about: how is the Church of England to serve all the people in England, including those who are not English? But the Tudor monarch lived in a time before mass immigration.
