FAILURE has not only marked modern Catholic social institutions, or efforts at Protestant reformation, of course — it has marked the entire history of Christian Ireland. By definition, it could not be ...

Childhood memories of her vicar uncle inspired the story about a disillusioned clergy spouse, finds Sarah Meyrick. Scroll down to read an extract from the book ANN is “a reluctant vicar’s wife”, ...

CHURCHGOING among young people, particularly men, in England and Wales is growing, but not within the Church of England, a new report from the Bible Society suggests. The report, The Quiet Revival, ...

The best-selling author talks to Susan Gray about his latest historical novel set in the reign of King Charles II ROBERT HARRIS’s home in Berkshire ceased to be a working vicarage in 1938, but the ...

SEX is perhaps the last thing that you would expect Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch to want to write about, especially in relation to the Church. Having grown up in a clerical family, he set off to ...

THE congregation of St Boniface’s, Whipton, in Exeter, is feeling the benefit of a new underfloor heating system, which has been designed to maintain a steady temperature throughout the winter and to ...

Isaiah 61.1-6; Psalm 72 (1-9) 10-16; Ephesians 3.1-12; Matthew 2.1-12 THE festival of the Epiphany preserves its Greek name in the Western Church. By the second century, it was beginning to be kept as ...

A “CULTURAL genocide” is under way in the Philippines, as indigenous people are killed and forcibly removed from their lands to make way for businesses who want to exploit natural resources, a new ...

A PRIEST formerly in the C of E, who used “arguably highly insensitive” terms when speaking about the Church’s first transgender archdeacon, has no case to answer, the President of Tribunals has ruled ...

THE Roma — or Gypsy — diaspora began with movements south into Persia and north-westerly into Eastern Europe around the year 1300, after a fleeing of sectarian violence in India. By the year 1400, ...

ASBRIDGE. The Revd Nigel Asbridge, Vicar of St Mary with St John, and St Mary’s Centre, Edmonton (London): 31 December. BUCKLEY. The Revd Christopher Buckley, Vicar of Belle Isle and Hunslet (Leeds): ...

The Very Revd Dr David Edwards writes: OWEN CHADWICK, who died on 17 July, aged 99, was one of the two cleverest Anglican clergymen in his generation; the other was his younger brother Henry. The ...