Chris Vipers introduces ‘For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission’ In October 2023, Bishops of the worldwide Catholic Church will gather in Synod in Rome. The path towards this Synod began in October 2021, in a worldwide invitation from [...]
Tom Woolford offers a note of caution on proposals for electing the next Archbishop of Canterbury Back in early February, I had one of the greatest honours of my life – as unexpected as it was wonderful. A pen-pal [...]
Renowned historian and royal commentator Hugo Vickers reflects on the Accession of Her Majesty Our Queen It must have been an extraordinary way to become Queen – at an undefined moment, on a man-made platform up a tree, watching [...]
For Roger Jupp, the disciplines of Lent bring challenge and reward Fr Philip Strong had been Vicar of St Ignatius, Hendon in Sunderland since early 1931. On 7th August 1936, while presiding at the morning Mass, he felt a [...]
Keeping a Good Lent means welcoming in the desert, finds Rebecca Swyer ‘Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit through the wilderness.’ (Luke 4.1). Whereas Mark says Jesus was ‘driven by [...]
For Dominic Walker OGS it means fasting and self-denial with acceptance and hope The introduction to the Ash Wednesday service in Common Worship reminds us that at first the season of Lent was observed by those preparing for Baptism [...]
The recent emergence of plans for reform of the Church of England’s episcopate has caused alarm in some quarters and has even led to frontpage coverage from a national newspaper. Is there going to be a greater geographical focus for [...]
Andy Hawes The Mission of Prayer I believe it was Father Robert, a founder of the Community of the Servants of the Will of God, who said ‘the mission of the Church is weak because her prayer is [...]
From America, Victor Lee Austin sees the issue of abortion beyond politics In the half-century since the U.S. Supreme Court thought it settled the abortion issue, the issue has not gone away. A few months hence the Court will [...]
ALL SAINTS, WATERDEN, NORFOLK Blink at the wrong moment as you drive along a by-road between Walsingham and South Creake, and you’ll miss Waterden. The tiny church stands a little way back from the road, down a slope. There [...]