Cardinal Newman and Cardinal Ratzinger ONE OF THE IMAGINATIVE features of Sydney's Olympic Village, in which 23,000 people are living and working for the duration of the 2000 Games, is the chaplaincy centre. At previous Olympic Games, athletes and others [...]

Stormy Petrol GOVERNMENTS HAVE a habit of treating themselves as a cut above other mortals. Even if there had been no theological rationale to undergird it, it was almost inevitable that the doctrine of the divine right of kings would [...]

Educashun, Educashun, Educashun A recent priestly Anglican convert to Rome was duly re-ordained and given his first posting in the true church. He was to be assistant to a long established parish priest of inscrutable catholic provenance (i.e. Irish). On [...]

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Bored with Silly Bishops "IN SEMINARY, I was taught that we had to change the Faith to fit a new age," said one of the two bishops of the new Anglican Mission in America, John Rodgers, when interviewed in mid-September. [...]

John Beyer responds to Robbie Los's review of suburban pornography PORNOGRAPHERS and their agents often claim that Britain has the strictest censorship laws in Europe. This is a lie. Following a High Court judgement in May the British Board of [...]

Robbie Low garners a few flowers along the primrose path to preferment THE LAST TIME I wrote about the senior appointments in these columns I received a goodly number of supportive letters and telephone calls. To keep the record straight [...]

The New Programme: The John Keble Workshops The first fifteen John Keble Conferences were designed to be in preparation for the great Millennial Event, Christ Our Future held on 10th June, 2000 in the London Arena. They covered a wide [...]

The Second Time of Asking THERE IS NEVER a dull moment in the Church of England. Consider the following cautionary tale. Some while ago a young couple approached me to arrange a wedding. They were adamant they must be married [...]

More Than Meets the Ear AS THE ROAR OF HYMN AND SONG TRAFFIC continues to thunder past our church windows, and an occasional passenger jumps off to join those inside, we may just spot two newish-looking long vehicles speeding along [...]