National Assembly Letters have as usual gone out to all Registered Parishes and to all Dioceses, asking for the names of their delegates to the Tenth National Assembly, to be held on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th October, at the [...]

Things ain’t what they used to be George Austin on the remembrance of curates past When I was made deacon in 1955, I was 23 years old going on 17 – desperately immature and yet with experience of a declining [...]

This article is compiled by a priest of the Federation of Catholic Priests who values the support and nurture provided by the society, both at diocesan and national level. Many Anglican Catholic priests are members of FCP. In the majority [...]

A call from Rome to take liturgy seriously THEOLOGY AT THE EUCHARISTIC TABLE Jeremy Driscoll osb Gracewing, 250pp, pbk 0 85244 469 9, £17.99 Dr WR (the Gloomy Dean) Inge of St Paul’s was dining at a high table in [...]

Without Prejudice Some time ago, a well-known bishop was interviewed on Australian television about issues confronting Christians in the twenty-first century. The interviewer said, ‘It is known that you are against homosexuals in the Church’s ministry’, to which the response [...]

George Austin queries who has the last word For many years – thirty to be exact – I have been labouring under the misapprehension that the Worship and Doctrine Measure of 1974 freed the Church of England from interference by [...]

Gerry O’Brien prefers The Advocate to the lawyers Synod has met in November every year for as long as anyone can remember, until this year. There are issues we might wish to raise and there are questions we might wish [...]

PENSIONED OFF The national pensions crisis produced by dishonest economic planning, several years grim stock market performance and the Chancellor's £5 billion raid on our funds is not the only cloud on the poorly paid clergyperson's horizon. Church investments have [...]

Remain seated for victory Even though the deck heads are now higher, naval officers still sit to toast the Sovereign. They are thereby reminded of the triumphs of Vernon, Nelson and Hood in the days when the wooden walls of [...]

The Priest and Contemplative Living In every Christian life, the art of living, the ars vivendi, the art of making a radically new start, cannot be practised without an art of dying, the ars moriendi. Life through death is the [...]