William Davage on the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Catholic Movement in the CofE ‘Hoity Toity!' interjected Stevie with great vehemence. ‘Some people don't know what's good for them. If I was them I'd be jolly glad of a whiff of [...]
Fr Ephrem Lash died on 15 March, aged 85. A priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, he was for many years the Orthodox representative to the General Synod, and was responsible [...]
The Bishop of Burnley’s Chrism-Mass sermon My old parish in London was round the back of the main stations, and bad things happen round the backs of stations. The streets at night were filled with dubious characters – and that was [...]
The Bishop of Ebbsfleet’s Chrism-Mass sermon Why do we celebrate Pentecost in the middle of Holy Week? For that is what this service is about: Pentecost. It's one of those celebrations that echoes a great feast celebrated at some other time [...]
Paschal Worton continues his thoughts on the Mercy of God Jenny lived at the top of a high rise block of flats in a Plymouth estate. She lived with her budgies, and made wonderful Cornish Pasties for everyone in the [...]
Anthony Howe reflects on his work at Hampton Court It is not every day that you find yourself pictured in this august publication, comparing your shade of red with a Cardinal and the Home Secretary. But then again it is not [...]
Julian Browning reads Amoris Lætitia In April the Vatican published Pope Francis's 260-page post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Letitia, which reflected on the work of two Synods on the Family, and included contributions from bishops' conferences around the world. It is a magisterial [...]
ALL SAINTS, LAUGHTON, LINCS Laughton looks to be a typical North Lincolnshire village. The church looks typical as well – west tower, clerestoried and aisled nave, and chancel – at least until you cross the threshold. You realise that its [...]
Tom Sutcliffe yearns for a greater championing of British opera Peter Phillips, the musical entrepreneur who created and conducts the Tallis Scholars, says that he cares that opera, 'a form of entertainment that gives some people a lot of pleasure’, [...]
THE ROMANOVS 1613-1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicolson,745pp, hbk ISBN 978 0297852667 £17 Next year’s centenary of the downfall of the Romanov dynasty will no doubt result in a large number of volumes concerned with that flawed and tragic [...]