Colin Podmore reports on an ‘ecumenical conversation’ on the ordination of women On the last day of June your intrepid reporter set out for one of a series of events marking The Tablet’s 175th anniversary – an early-evening ‘ecumenical conversation’ [...]
A press release and statement from the International Catholic Congress of Anglicans which met in Fort Worth, Texas, this summer Three hundred and fifty clergy and laity from around the world met at the Hilton in Fort Worth, Texas, on [...]
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 [...]
The ordination season is upon us once again. As advertised in this issue of NEW DIRECTIONS, bishops of The Society will be ordaining men to the priesthood in churches from Liverpool to Camden and Horden to Portsmouth, and many points [...]
ST GILBERT AND ST HUGH, GOSBERTON CLOUGH The Lincolnshire village of Gosberton has a splendid 14–15th c. cruciform church, one of the very finest in the county (no small praise). At the end of the 19th century, residents of the [...]
Conrad O’Riley enjoys an authoritative biography of Pope Francis THE GREAT REFORMER Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope Austen Ivereigh Allen & Unwin, 464pp, hbk 978 1760113285, £20 On 27 June 1992, twenty-one bishops were consecrated in Buenos [...]
Christopher Smith visits the Christian Resources Exhibition, and finds himself puzzled as to what Christian resources might actually be As they say in the diary columns: To Docklands, for the Christian Resources Exhibition. I’d never been, and a colleague had [...]
The Father by Florian Zeller at the Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, the latest fine French play beautifully translated by playwright Christopher Hampton, will no doubt be said to be about dementia. If I had been told that, I would probably have [...]
What’s the point? Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House I have been in the parishes I serve for a fairly long spell (26 years) and yet I have no clear idea of the spiritual life of many [...]
devotional The message of Evelyn Underhill Dana Greene The mystical life is, for Underhill, the spiritual life because all true religion has a central mystical element. This does not mean that all those who lead the spiritual life have lives [...]