CATENA AUREA, A Commentary on the Four Gospels collected out of the works of the Fathers by St Thomas Aquinas, translated and edited by John Henry Newman, 1841, published with a new introduction by Aidan Nichols OP, Saint Austin Press, [...]

THE MEXICAN WAVE MOST SPORTING EVENTS are sponsored nowadays and we have even grown used to the weather forecast being sponsored by PowerGen or Legal and General, but if you were watching a BBC TV Everyman programme a few months [...]

WHY DO LOW CHURCH PEOPLE PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY? I agree that very often this does seem to be the case as if some Christians were embarrassed that Jesus had a mother at all and that [...]

CAKES AND CONGREGATIONALISM IN JULY THIS YEAR the Court of Appeal upheld a claim by Southwark Diocese that the Church of England does not actually employ the clergy whom it can, nevertheless, deprive of their livelihood - surely an extreme [...]

DAILY LIFE IN LAODICEA I WROTE THE LEAD for this letter two weeks ago before leaving for our General Convention, the equivalent of your General Synod that meets for almost two weeks once every three years. In it I predicted: [...]

A MISSIONARY ENVOI MANY PEOPLE in the contemporary church are under the misapprehension that overseas missionaries are a disappearing group of people who belong to a vanished colonial age. Before I left England to serve in Papua New Guinea (PNG), [...]

by a Sister of the Community of the Holy Cross, Rempstone AUTHORITY IS ALWAYS a threat when someone else is exercising it. Authority is also often abused, yet it is necessary. In the Church the need is to discern the [...]

In spite of the faithful efforts of many bishops and deputies, within and beyond the Episcopal Synod of America, the Episcopal Church in General Convention assembled refused to uphold orthodox doctrine and restore godly discipline, while acting to persecute the [...]

Article 3 Children’s Ministry - The Message ‘For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ’ (2 Cor. 2:17) KJV [...]

CANTUAR The congregation of Loyal Presbyters, who gathered for the Canterbury Diocesan Conference, went home in good heart this year. Greatly encouraged by the Primate’s assurance that, contrary to the miserable prognostications of the gloom mongers, the Anglican Communion is [...]