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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
THE Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Revd Christopher Chessun, is recovering in hospital after he was injured when a taxi in which he was travelling made an emergency stop. On Wednesday morning, a ...
THE historian Tom Holland has written about the Roman and Persian empires; he has examined with a sceptical eye the foundational myths of Islam. Now he has turned his attention to our own civilisation ...
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, ...