Lord of all ages I was once asked by a secondary school class, ‘What use is Jesus to people over the age of 32?’ They were probing a serious area of concern about the role of Jesus in providing an [...]

Gerry O'Brien has a cunning plan to extend the period of reception The General Synod comes to the end of its five year life in July, but before it does so it will be asked to set in motion a [...]

John Hunwicke on the lasting consequences, especially for Anglicans, of the pontificate of John Paul II, and the unapologetic proclamation of the Gospel which characterised his teaching As the obituary writers get drafting on a new Pope and the Vaticanologists [...]

Simon Ellis followed the funeral of Pope John Paul II on television on Friday 8 April, and was much moved by it and how it spoke to the millions who were watching It was a funeral without precedent. At one [...]

In Low Week, the Society of the Holy Cross Celebrated its 150th anniversary. Edwin Barnes, former Bishop of Richborough, took part in all five days and found much to enjoy and remember A joyful noise! That is how many of [...]

Let us rejoice at the election of Pope Benedict XVI. When, on the evening of Tuesday, 19 April, Cardinal Estévez, in slow and careful Latin, announced the name of the new Pope to the huge crowd which had rushed to [...]