Chris Verity concludes his history of the Glastonbury Pilgrimage The Pilgrimage has always been in the forefront of the ecumenical movement. In 1961 the Orthodox Churches joined the Procession, and have held services in the Undercroft in most years since. [...]

Julian Mann offers a view on money and the church Socially Marxist political correctness now dominating the governance of the UK has anti-business tendencies, even if it does not set out to nationalize the means of production, distribution and exchange. [...]

JOHAN ZOFFANY RA Society Observed Royal Academy 10 March–10 June Admission £9, concessions available ONCE HIS portraits were the height of fashion. Now the crowds queue in the Academy’s courtyard for another Academician, and for a landscape show. David Hockney [...]

Not much of a choice From Mr Peter Osborne With the impending vacancy at Canterbury, one’s thoughts naturally turn to the field! The tragedy is that the field is sadly depleted. When Runcie retired there was no one obviously ‘out [...]

The French Revolution was bad news for Black Virgins. Some were destroyed, usually by burning, echoing what happened at many English shrines in the mid-16th century. Sometimes devout people collected surviving fragments, often reincorporated in the modern statue, as at [...]

Barry Barnes introduces us to an organization that provides support, fellowship and teaching for Readers The College of Readers is a small, but growing, members’ organization founded in 2000, under the guidance of the late Bishop Michael Houghton, which aims [...]

Denis Desert on Newman’s ability to use poetry to convey spiritual understanding Matthew Arnold, the literary critic, in spite of not sharing John Henry Newman’s theological perspective, held him in considerable regard. While Arnold admired Newman from an early stage [...]

The government has opened a consultation until mid-June on equal-marriage Nicholas Turner argues that the proposals are ill conceived and will do real harm in the long term One of the best illustrations of the current debate on changing the [...]

PRAY WITH THE APOSTLES ascension day → pentecost In Acts 1:13–14 we are told that the Apostles with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus devoted themselves to prayer with one accord. They had just witnessed Jesus’ Ascension and [...]

It was a cold, wet afternoon when I saw Ordinariate member Hubert selling the Big Issue on the High Street. As he said, learning Romanian no problem now that you didn’t have to brush up your O-level Latin to join [...]