Archbishop’s Easter Message, read the headlines for one newspaper on Easter Monday, 1986, followed by a sub-heading in larger print, "Runcie applauds forgiving vicar." The reporter, Clifford Longley, wrote, "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Robert Runcie, yesterday bestowed an Easter absolution on the perpetrators of the recent horrific incident in a west London vicarage." Longley was referring to the attack upon a Church of England clergyman, his daughter, and her boy friend that occurred in the middle of Lent. The vicar received a fractured skull, the other young man was badly beaten, and the vicar’s daughter was raped. When the vicar recovered and preached his first sermon, he called upon his congregation to forgive the people who had done this terrible act, just as he had done. That’s…