Lord Williams of Oystermouth on Laudato Si’: Part 2 Because of the eagerness of some commentators to stir the pot of controversy over the causes of climate change, this appeal for cultural revolution has been pushed to one side in [...]
Simon Killwick reflects on the last quinquennium The last five years on Synod was a roller-coaster ride over legislation for women bishops. It began with the emergence of inadequate legislation based on a Code of Practice, which would have condemned [...]
The Bishop of Ebbsfleet expounds the recent statements of the Council of Bishops of the Society In his great encyclical ecumenism, Ut unum sint, Pope John Paul II recalled with approval the well-known saying of Pope John XXIII: ‘What unites [...]
Luke Miller on Catholic mission then, now, and in the future The Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth (John 16.13) Buried in the Church of England Archive Centre at Bermondsey there is a very large scrapbook of mission [...]
Some new faces on General Synod At the end of At the end of the last session of the General Synod, many members of the Catholic Group retired after accumulating many years of faithful service between them. The good news [...]
Colin Podmore reports on recent developments News from The Society At the request of the Council of Bishops, a new Vacancies section has been added to the Society website: www.sswsh.com/vacancies.php. The intention is that all vacancies in parishes under the [...]
New Directions congratulates all those who have been elected to serve on the General Synod in the recent elections. It will not surprise readers, however, that we offer our loudest cheers for those who will constitute the Catholic Group when [...]
ST MARY THE VIRGIN AND ALL SAINTS, FOTHERINGHAY, NORTHANTS To view Fotheringhay church from the south-east is to witness a tranquil scene, not wholly at one with its past. Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded in 1587 at the now-vanished [...]
The Press Information folded into my programme for La Bohème with English National Opera at the London Coliseum opened with a sentence that no critic needs to see or could warm to: ‘Opera’s greatest love story comes to the London [...]
Ian McCormack welcomes a new study of an important bishop JR: THE LIFE & MINISTRY OF JOHN RICHARDS, FIRST BISHOP OF EBBSFLEET John Fairweather Additional Curates Society, 112pp, pbk 978 0993393006, £10 At a time when Catholics in the Church [...]