bishops in hotel with naked woman
So the Bishops are meeting to discuss, once again, the ramifications of letting women into their House.
Turns out that a hen party is staying in the same hotel as the Bishops, and around midnight a naked and very inebriated woman locks herself out of her room and sets off the fire alarm. One very flustered Bishop has to retire to his room for a minute to think what to do, and then runs back out to give her his dressing gown.
The comment afterwards? “It would have been a good thing if we’d had a woman bishop there to spare our blushes.” A comment in good humour, of course, and it makes a good headline (see here and here).
I guess that must have cheered up some lengthy and laborious committee meetings for the Bishops. (Although I trust they are not really rehearsing the old chestnut that we need women in the church to minister to other women…)
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