The NE frontier region of France, known as the Thiérache, was for centuries a rat run for invading armies. During those times of rape and pillage, villages like Jeantes fortified at least some of their church building to provide shelter [...]
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 [...]
Julian Mann explains why team working can cause liberal policies to prevail, to the detriment of the Church’s reputation The rhetoric of the deanery review is rapidly changing. Before the recession, the talk was of how churches in a deanery [...]
Paul Griffin on a Christian light-heartedness and humour What ought to be a Christian tone? One's mind may fly to the average Songs of Praise, with the fixed smiles, the arm-waving and swaying to drums and trumpets, the determined air [...]
John Pearce is sorry to see friends leave but glad of so much they have shared Many of you will soon be going home, having been welcomed so generously by this visionary Pope. As you go, I want to say [...]
John Shepley continues his historical review of the fatal flaws in the Anglican Communion that hastened its imminent collapse When the Windsor Report cited the process leading up to women’s ordination as an exemplum of the workings of the Instruments [...]
Jonathan Baker takes another route to the meaning and significance of Holy Order to the one taken by Dr Rowan Williams In his lecture at the Symposium at the Gregorian University in Rome on 19 November in honour of Cardinal [...]
Nigel Anthony on what’s going on he Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 was introduced as a private member’s Bill on 14 October in Uganda’s parliament by MP David Bahati. When tabled, the Minister for Ethics and Integrity, Dr James Nsaba Butoro, made [...]
with the synodical process Simon Killwick, Chairman of the Catholic Group in General Synod, summarizes the reasons why we need to see the General Synod’s legislative process through Our vocation as Catholic Anglicans has always been about witnessing to the [...]
The faithful remnant Michael Rear shares his experience as a former Anglican and looks back to past hopes of reunion with Rome A much-respected Canon who became a Roman Catholic some years ago was asked by the Roman Catholic bishop [...]