As the front cover reminds us, it is no easy task to rebuild the work of the past. There are many/some fine modern buildings yet even now, centuries later, it is the medieval buildings that most usually dominate, define, impress [...]
Philip Pullman describes his recent book about Jesus as a ‘story’ but Mark Stevens argues that even when judged as story not theology, it still fails to be plausible esus promised the Kingdom of God and what we got was [...]
Ronald Crane shares some notes on the meeting organized by the Federation of Catholic Priests in Holy Cross Hall – on the very day General Synod was disgracing itself in York – with the Rt Revd Malcolm McMahon oP, Bishop [...]
John Shepley examines the names Anglicans call themselves, the intellectual baggage and pretensions that they carry with them, and what they can teach us about Anglican ecclesiology The Church of England, The Church in Wales, The Scottish Episcopal Church, The [...]
On the thirtieth anniversary in June of the film The Blues Brothers, L’Osservatore Romano declared it a ‘Catholic classic’. Cynics might say that this was a ploy to divert attention from sex abuse scandals. Shrewder Rome-watchers realized that it was [...]
Ed Tomlinson considers thequestion why those who won the victory at the York Synod are so upset and angry, and utterly unable to celebrate Afew years ago a rotund prop forward crashed over a white line on the turf of [...]
An Anglican future in the Catholic Church Aidan Nichols on the Church of England, the Ordinariate and the conversion of England t is easier for the Church of England to become Catholic than for the Church of Rome in England [...]
Why does Radio 3 have a chart show with requests? It exposes the amount of music which is ‘recently released’ or ‘a new recording’. It panders to the self-opinionated – though surprisingly few clergy take part; perhaps the generation brought [...]
[as updated December 2009] BEXHILL-on-SEA St Barnabas, Sea Road Forward in Faith. Sunday - Parish Mass 11am, Third Sunday (Easter to All Saints): Evening Prayer and Benediction 4pm. Mass daily at 10am except Monday (but check the noticeboard), Second Tuesday: [...]