The Rev. Tim Jones, parish priest of St. Lawrence and St. Hilda in York, England, said society's attitude to those in need "leaves some people little option but crime."
"My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift," the 42-year-old priest told his congregation Sunday, the Yorkshire Evening Post reports.
But if they do, he said, they should steal from big national chains rather than small businesses because the costs "are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices."The archdeacon of York took a dim view of Jones' advice, saying, "The Church of England does not advise anyone to shoplift," the BBC and the Post report.
As for the North Yorkshire police, they called his sermon "highly irresponsible."
Speaking later on BBC Radio York, Father Jones said he was not trying to rally people to shoplift, rather to encourage people to give more to charity to avoid those in need from becoming so desperate.
"If one has exhausted every legal opportunity to get money and you're still in a desperate situation, it is a better moral thing to do to take absolutely no more than you need for no longer than you need," he told the BBC.
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