Error about the French church? Saying nothing (7)
I believe the answer is:
silence
'nothing' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.
'error about the french church?' is the wordplay.
'error' becomes 'sin' (a sin is a moral error).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'church?' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'sin' placed around 'le' is 'silen'.
'silen'+'ce'='SILENCE'
'saying' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for silence that I've seen before include "Lack of sound" , "that's golden" , "Secrecy; stillness" , "Shut up!" , "Soundlessness" .)