Why did Justin Welby fall so tragically short? Because he was preoccupied with efficiency, not listening | Catherine Pepinster

Archbishop Justin Welby resigned as archbishop of Canterbury on Tuesday .

Makin review charted brutal savagery of serial abuser John Smyth .

Report said Welby and other senior church figures showed “a distinct lack of curiosity” and a tendency towards minimisation of the matter’ It is not the first such organisation to make its own wellbeing rather than the survivors of abuse a priority.

But it would do well to focus harder on that wandering rabbi, who spoke so powerfully of those who harmed children. Otherwise not only will more be damaged but all that it stands for the food banks, the warm spaces in winter , work with the homeless, the places we can go when we need to be still and silent will be irreparably harmed too. - Catherine Pepinster is a writer on religion and a former editor of the Tablet , the Catholic weekly .