Bishop Peter Ramsden on accompanying the Catholic bishops of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands to Rome In 2005 Bishop Denys Ririka, the Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Aipo Rongo, Papua New Guinea, was the first Anglican bishop [...]
Mark McIntyre reports on Anglo-Catholic Charismatic celebration at Walsingham, August 2012 Towards the end of August this year, a group of about forty Anglo Catholic Christians from al over the country met at Walsingham, identifying themselves as Charismatic. The pilgrimage [...]
‘Mattins at eleven; a foretaste of heaven’ (Betjeman) Once the watchword was ‘It’s the Mass that matters.’ Today should it be revised to ‘It’s Mattins that matters’? Why? Surveys of church attendance show cathedral congregations growing. Significantly Mattins is more [...]
Christopher Trundle on the community established at Little Gidding ‘You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid.’ (T.S. Eliot, from Little Gidding) In 1625 [...]
George Austin airs his suspicions about the process of appointing a new Archbishop of Canterbury If I were a betting man – which I am not! – I would see the Bishop of Durham as the favourite possibility as the [...]
In the period leading up to the introduction of women priests we were told that the provisions respecting the consciences of those who could not accept women priests would be there for as long as they were needed. We were [...]
Forward in hope As Christians we share a living hope which enables us to hold firm with confidence as we wait for God’s will to prevail, writes Bishop Martyn Jarrett ‘By his great mercy he has given us a new [...]