The Rt Revd Robert Ladds, of the Society of Mary, reflects on the role of pilgrimage in the Society's work to achieve its aims The Society of Mary is one of a number of devotional societies formed within the Church [...]

For our liberal friends Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, our best wishes for an environmentally-conscious, socially-responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular [...]

George Austin looks at the relationship between Church and State and the role played by the monarch in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the limitations of the Act of Toleration From the moment in 597 that Augustine arrived in [...]

Ian Falconer reports on the recent RC-Orthodox agreement 'A modest first step'. So Cardinal Walter Kasper, leader of the l Roman Catholic delegation, described the Ravenna Statement. In October, the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox [...]

Alan Rabjohns provides an overview of the women bishops debate in the Church in Wales, and its importance as a possible indicator of things to come in other provinces of the Anglican Communion There has been much mention in these [...]

In what looks like a rush to pre-empt the CofE, the Church in Wales has published a draft Bill to enable women to be ordained as bishops. It is a strange confection. It begins by claiming that it is 'now [...]