In September Colin Podmore addressed a gathering at St Martin’s, Salisbury. He began by reflecting on the background to the House of Bishops’ Declaration. When I have told people in some other dioceses about this event, organized under the title [...]

David Godfrey muses on the lessons of last year’s Leckhampton Case The Leckhampton Judgement, handed down in 2014 by Chancellor June Rodgers in the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Gloucester, was something of a tour de force – and [...]

Stephen Grainger journeys once more behind the Iron Curtain My second trip of the year behind what was once known as the Iron Curtain coincided with the twenty-eighth anniversary of Ronald Reagan's famous speech at which he demanded: ‘Mr Gorbachev, [...]

Christopher Idle ponders (and marks) some personal pronouns. Yes, ‘standing in the need of prayer'; the old spiritual had a point. When we assemble and meet together, there is a place for the first person singular. ‘The Lord is my [...]

Philip Corbett makes his first pilgrimage to the Holy Land As a first-time pilgrim to the Holy Land, I really wasn't sure what to expect. Would it be simply a religious Disneyland? Would I bored by the ruins? And yet [...]

Jesuit Father Marko I. Rupnik's striking logo for the Jubilee Year of Mercy is now available as a lapel pin, thanks to a touching gesture of generosity by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of [...]

Peter Eagles on Remembrance and Remembering By the time we get to Remembrance Sunday, many of us will already have been engaged in an act of national recollection in this extraordinary year of anniversaries. For my part, as a military [...]

In mid-September, twenty-one Bishops from the Northern Province came to the Diocese of Sheffield to co-lead a weekend of mission that went under the title ‘Crossroads'. I love going on missions, and I had a great team and an enormous [...]