It has happened before and it can happen again Spin it how you like, there is little doubt that Anglican Communion is falling apart. Talk things up as best you can, you cannot avoid the truth that parishes in this [...]

Two of my children are in the midst of exam revision; one for the new AS, one for A levels. Their little brother has just sat 14-plus SATS. I dare not ponder how this constant scrutiny, this incessant assessment and [...]

Eucharistic disunity Some parts of the secular press had a field day on Maundy Thursday, parading before any who cared to read about it the deep wound at the heart of the Church – division in the very centre of [...]

Another perspective on Cranmer’s second Holy Communion War and civil unrest apart, was there ever so uncertain a summer as that of 450 years ago, as the weak health of the young King Edward VI became weaker still? One thing [...]

Anne Gardom experiences the Audio-tour The Life of Christ at the National Gallery There are seventeen pictures in this audio-tour at the National Gallery. The commentary that accompanies them is clear and straightforward, giving first a quick outline of the [...]

Eucharist, Bishop, Church At the heart of the Tradition stands the figure of the bishop. His role, from the time of Ignatius of Antioch (the immediate sub-apostolic period), has defined the parameters of the Catholic Church. The bishop, says Ignatius, [...]

Patrick Henry Reardon offers three maxims for the soul It never fails to jar my soul when Christians want to feel that they are ‘making progress in the spiritual life’. Personal impressions of progress are undiluted nonsense; our feelings have [...]

How might we understand the Pope’s recent encyclical? John Paul’s Maundy Thursday letter. Is it his farewell to the Universal Church over which he has presided with such distinction for a quarter of a century? The swansong of the man [...]

Another month passes, and February 2004 draws closer. It was when it lay two years ahead, that I first began to take notice of this possible watershed moment. One year to go, and it became like a cloud darkening the [...]

William Law, Scholar, Mystic, Non-Juror and Wit Biography Was it that he measured things so differently from the rest of them, so that you never quite knew what his reaction would be if you came to him with a piece [...]