Charles hasn’t looked well for years at least a decade or more. He is ill and he is 77. He will have the best medical care at his fingertips - no waiting for any appointments check ups etc and diet and with it he can expect to live much longer than the average NHS 77 year old - could be one week or twenty years we don’t know. He waited until his 70s to be king he isn’t going to give it up.
Over years of church going I’ve realised the obvious - people don’t say what they mean.
In my previous church the pastor had a long term affair with his secretary which was only discovered by chance by his adult daughter who borrowed his phone. They had been having sex for years in the office. His wife was lovely and heavily involved in the church. He was suspended and the secretary was forced to leave. His wife led the church but he was suspended for a large number of years congregation was heavily put on to ‘forgive him’ and refused and he left and went with his wife to Bradford / Leeds area and set up a new one. Wife and him seem strong.
I moved to a different church and vicar had an affair and everyone blamed the wife (she wasn’t too happy and wouldn’t forgive him) . Again he was suspended and went to Christian counselling and what was truly awful was he was forced to stand in church with his wife and children (!) and all the children except his were sent out and he was forced to apologise and detail what exactly what he had done. Horrific for the children and wife and I didn’t understand why he had to do it but the elders insisted.
There is just as much bad behaviour (assaults, addiction, fraud etc) from Christian as much as the normal population - if not more. There is more because people trust and people also give full apologies and ‘forgiveness’ can be demanded.
I’ve learnt faith is a personal journey. I belong loosely to a very liberal church but I’ve learnt going to church doesn’t make you a Christian and saying you are a Christian doesn’t make you behave in a moral way. I have listened (not willingly) to men justify their affairs as it wasn’t them it was the devil (never sure if it was the woman depicted as the devil or the lust !)
this article is a decade old https://www.sapiens.org/culture/religious-people-moral/ but it was an interesting read at the time.
We are shown time and time again that politicians are more trusted if they say they go to church and are married with children etc but it’s not actually true is it.
We know Charles had an affair as he admitted it. We don’t know if William has or will have one in the future? Or if the Queen or Philip had them? But Charles and William will become Head of the Church and thus it is a moot point.
I do think many things the RF do are buried and hidden and wills should be public and not hidden etc Same rules and no exemptions and if over the next 30 years or so if that doesn’t happen I can see us getting rid of them. It’s got to be transparent and fair and it isn’t.