A poll by the research organisation, Ipsos MORI, investigating the most trusted job roles has found trust in clergy has dropped to 67% compared to 85% 30 years ago.
The Veracity Index said professions more trusted than priests include doctors (89%), teachers (86%), judges (80%), scientists (79%), hairdressers (69%), police (68%) and the ordinary person in the street.
It reported that trust in bankers had risen from 29% in 2011, to 37%, while priests are also apparently more trusted than television newsreaders (65%), charity chief executives (47%), business leaders (35%), estate agents (25%), government ministers (22%) and politicians (21%).
Revd Canon Jonathan Ford, a vicar in Bury St Edmunds, said: "People have less to do with clergy now than they did 20 [or] 30 years ago because less people are in church and they're less the person that you would turn to, necessarily, but, of course, probably the big one that has affected these figures is the issue around child abuse and the perceived inability of the church to response appropriately. Cont.
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