Advent draws nigh Advent this year creeps into the last week of this month. Already commercial Christmas is beginning to make its presence felt, and the first Carol Services are only a few weeks away. Advent deserves more personal [...]
Gary Waddington concludes his thoughts on the Shared Conversations The Theological deficit? A colleague of mine is fond of saying that if the arguments about the ordination of women were primarily lacking a theological response but found a justice [...]
Peter Mullen recalls his emphatic friend and mentor It is said that the late David Jenkins, former Bishop of Durham, was the model for Peter Simple’s caricature “The go-ahead Bishop of Bevingdon”. He was certainly left-wing, a theological modernist, [...]
New Administrative Assistant I am delighted to be able to announce the appointment of Mrs Alison Shaw as our new Administrative Assistant. Alison has a very strong background in accountancy and office administration, and for the last 12 years has [...]
The Bishop of Norwich continues his thoughts on Anglican Papalism An Anglican Papalist tradition easily found favour in Walsingham in the 1930s. It was never clear cut, though, for Hope Patten continued to use the Book of Common Prayer [...]
Light of those whose dreary dwelling Borders on the shades of death, Come, and by thy love’s revealing Dissipate the clouds beneath: The new heaven and earth’s Creator, In our deepest darkness rise, Scattering all the night of nature, Pouring [...]
Mgr Bruce Harbert bids farewell to Fr Anthony Andrews In 1963, I was staying in the mining village of Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, where my friend Fr Anthony Andrews had recently been appointed Vicar, although he had not yet reached [...]
Robert Beaken on 1916 as a year of change for the Catholic Movement As Europe slid into war in the summer of 1914, monarchs, governments, and generals – with perhaps the exception of Lord Kitchener – had no idea [...]
“I believe that it is very important that we return as soon as possible to a common orientation, of priests and the faithful turned together in the same direction—Eastwards or at least towards the apse—to the Lord who comes, in [...]
Evan McWilliams on God, time, and space Where is God? Is He to be found among the worshipping community, floating somewhere indistinctly above our heads? Or, perhaps, in another dimension which intersects with our own – but not in [...]