Retired city workers, managers and police officers are quickly drawn into the clergy to bring a “professional life experience” to rural churches and to share the burden with overly stressed newspapers. It is hoped that up to 8,000 members of the Church of England in the late fifties, sixties or seventies, especially those with managerial experience from their careers and a history of service as pastors or lay deacons, might be tempted to train as priests for to serve in their local parish after retirement. People are not usually
