Out of Africa
Visit to the Diocese of Wiawso In January this year, encouraged by the training officer of the Diocese of Liverpool, I took some Study Leave. As I mused on what I might do, I thought about our recent Lent fundraising [...]
The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
Mark Nicholls on the forthcoming Holy Year Some of us may have heard of Lampedusa. Some may even know what and where it is. For those of us who do not, it may be useful to cast our minds back [...]
A sociologist against women’s ordination
David R. Carlin Jr. outlines his objections The old saying ‘Roma locuta est, causa finita est’ apparently doesn’t hold as much water as it did once upon a time. Although Rome has clearly said that women will never be admitted [...]
Stand firm in the faith
At the Glastonbury Pilgrimage on the Feast of St Benedict, the Bishop of Richborough urges us to follow the saint’s example of faithfulness From St Matthew’s Gospel: Peter spoke to Jesus: ‘What about us?’ Just over fifty years ago Blessed [...]
Editorial
This month we publish a significant document which sets out the theological and ecclesiological principles which will guide our future as traditional Catholics living out our vocation and discipleship within the Church of England. We hope that this text (‘Communion [...]
touching place
ST JAMES THE GREAT, SOUTH LEIGH, OXON At first sight, South Leigh church does not seem to be anything out of the ordinary. The Oxford architect William Orchard may have designed the late 15th c. W tower (bearing a nice [...]
Book of the month
John Twisleton enjoys a fine spiritual memoir AN ENGLISH SPRING Memoirs Cormac Murphy-O’Connor Bloomsbury Continuum, 240pp, hbk 978 1472913142, £20 ‘Have we any right to take it strange, if, in this English land, the spring-time of the Church should turn [...]
the way we live now
Christopher Smith wonders where certain people should be focusing their attention Politics has continued to hold the nation’s interest even after May’s general election. Even in the depths of what journalists like to call the ‘silly season’ (August to you [...]
SECULAR LITURGIES
Missing the Point In their efforts to provide new and unusual interpretations, directors often miss the point, writes Tom Sutcliffe As one of 50 critics answering a series of questions about the previous opera season’s high and low points for [...]
Ghostly Counsel
Stopping Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House Recently I found myself asking someone (who was retired from paid work and worked for a voluntary organization) ‘What is stopping you from stopping still?’ This was someone who had [...]