Shadow Working Party Report The Report of Forward in Faith’s Shadow Working Party on Women and the Episcopate – under the title Consecrated Women? – edited by Fr Jonathan Baker, Principal of Pusey House, Oxford, will be published under the [...]

George Austin votes 'A' and 'B' Media reports of delays in printing and distributing the voting papers for the June elections were all very well but they didn’t tell half the story. One reason for the experiment was claimed to [...]

Sister Mary Angela on the challenges and joys of chastity Our society is somewhat obsessed with sex and the washing of dirty linen in public, thanks, in part, to the sensationalism of the media. The past few years have been [...]

A healing encounter with the Holy Trinity EARLY CHRISTIAN READER Edited by Steve Mason and Tom Robinson Alban Books, 780pp, hbk 1 5656 3043 2, [£29.95] All serious students of the Bible (and that must include most serious clergy) should [...]

David Chislett on A double act... and the media Australians traveling overseas are often surprised at both the interest shown in church matters by the British and American media and their high standard of reporting and comment compared with that [...]

Michael Heidt on Re-finding the Centre The English find America a very perplexing place; we arrive in the US expecting a kind of value-added United Kingdom, basically the same country, only far larger, richer and clothed with a different accent. [...]

Gerry O'Brien on why fudge cuts no ice Why The agenda for July will make interesting reading for historians. At a time when the storm clouds are gathering over the Anglican Communion we find the establishment of the Church of [...]

That’s the Way to Do It I have recently been reminded of a book I read a long time ago. It was published in 1989, just as the campaign to see women ordained to the priesthood in the Church of [...]

PENNY FOR THEM Those who lament the passing of the late great ‘Father Ted’ from our TV screens may find some consolation in a new Irish clerical entertainment, 'Mother Thoms'. Penelope Thoms, poet, master of divinity, spiritual director extraordinary and [...]

Anne Gardom in Paris and a bygone era Fifteen minutes’ walk from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is the Musée Nissim de Camondo. It is among Paris’ later acquisitions, having been given to the City in 1936 and has [...]