At times it is, frankly, embarrassing to be a priest in the Church of England. Some dispirited colleagues might say that that’s the case all of the time. Ask us: how has an anti-capitalist march, aimed at occupying the Stock Exchange, become a narrative about the management collapse of what is often called the parish church of the C of E? We’re stumped for an answer. All Gas and Gaiters, the gentle Sixties sitcom about a bumbling cathedral chapter, hardly begins to do justice to this story.