Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus Providing for Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church IN RECENT TIMES the Holy Spirit has moved groups of Anglicans to petition repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic [...]

During the middle ages embroidery was a popular way of decorating luxury textiles. The rich and powerful medieval Church owned huge amounts a of embroidered textiles, often donated by the wealthy. Documents show that embroidery was commissioned for clothing for [...]

In the first of two articles, Digby Anderson looks at Christian friendship as a safeguard against loneliness Practising Christians are an increasingly small minority of the population in England; fully practising Catholics a minority of that minority and Anglican Catholics [...]

John Richardson accepts that Archbishop Rowan's recent speech challenges Rome, but it offers as little comfort to the Anglican as to the Roman orthodox The recent Speech given in Rome by the Archbishop of Canterbury was remarkably robust. It was [...]

Wealth Warning from the Archbishops' Council: This article is EXTREMELY CONFlDENTIAL and may contain material which might seriously inhibit your preferment. Please cut along the dotted line and shred it before reading. Few institutions can be more addicted to secrecy [...]

Fr Peter cswg on the origins and relevance of two contemporary ecumenical movements explored at the 2009 RooT conference Receptive Ecumenism and Deep Church are two fresh ecumenical movements operative in the contemporary Church, which members of RooT explored together [...]

John Shepley explains how the resolution to the crisis of women's ordination within the Anglican Communion was almost worse than the original problem I think that Lambeth 1968 erred in giving power to the I Anglican Consultative Council'was Michael Ramsey's [...]

Charles Raven applies the Anglican model offered to Rome by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his recent speech there back onto the Anglican Communion and finds it wanting Apparently unabashed by the chaotic state of the Communion he represents, Archbishop [...]

Could this be a decisive moment in the history of the Church? The Catholic writer and journalist Joanna Bogle offers her first reactions to Pope Benedict's initiative and finds it exhilarating and immensely exciting How prophetic was the choice of [...]

I can remember the date exactly Tuesday 13 April 2004, and the place, and with a few moments — on an internet map I could get you an exact grid reference. A literally unforgettable moment, it was such a shock [...]