VEST FOR THE BEST No self respecting Anglo-catholic priest would be without his umbrellino or sanctuary slippers of course. But now there is a chance to be even more sartorially complete. Sable, the clerical mail-order firm of County Tipperary, is [...]
The Eucharist and Sacrifice William Laud who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1633 until his execution in 1645 asserted the doctrine of Eucharistic sacrifice, maintaining that we offer three sacrifices: the first being the commemorative sacrifice of Christ’s death made [...]
Keith Newton I looked it up in my diary. It was Saturday 24th March last year. The faithful remnant in St Albans diocese were gathered at Holy Cross, Marsh Farm in Luton for their annual general meeting. After the celebration [...]
It had gone. There could be no doubt about that. Cecilia Plumridge, the Assistant Librarian, opened the Muniment Room at 8.30am. Nothing was unusual. There was no indication of a forced entry. The alarm system, which had been properly set [...]
Patrick Reardon dwells on some biblical parallels Among the characters from Holy Scripture used as models of prayer in traditional Christian literature, few appear as often as Hannah, the mother of Samuel. Starting with Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus of [...]
Anne Gardom visits a glorious past for free The Victoria and Albert Museum have spent over thirty million pounds on their new galleries, and the result is impressive. The galleries show the best of their very extensive holdings of British [...]
UNTIL the reforms that came into effect on the 394th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, there were far too many hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Their influence was absurdly disproportionate; their number had to be drastically cut; I [...]
John Richardson on Evangelicals and Ecclesiology As a fourth National Evangelical Anglican Congress begins to take shape, so Evangelical Anglicans are once again divided – this time over whether they have an ecclesiology. The question was first raised in its [...]
The ordination of women to the episcopate raises many problems, none more important than those relating to the doctrine of ‘reception’. It is said that in 1992 we entered an ‘open period of reception’ of women presbyters. The truth or [...]
‘May I speak to Dr Peel, please?’ means that in 95% of the calls I answer, an ‘interregnum’ churchwarden is frantically seeking a priest for Sunday duty. Sometimes, however, the approach is different, when a matey clerical voice asks ‘Is [...]