From Fr Ted Crilly To His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI Dear your Holiness, your Honour, your formerly Eminence, I am writing to you on behalf of Dougal. (Fr D. Mcguire, formerly of St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, third class). Now, your [...]
Women Bishops Members of Forward in Faith will wish to do what they can in the coming struggle to achieve equitable provision in the Church for those unable in conscience to accept the ordination of women as bishops. The task [...]
St Peter's Church, Brooke The back road from Uppingham to Oakham is a delightful, traffic-free journey, especially in spring, when the flowers are out. Brooke is a tiny village whose idyllic thatched cottages have creeper-clad walls. The little church nestles [...]
Geoffrey Kirk notes the continuing research on male-female difference, and suggest that the jury is still out on a definitive conclusion You cannot, as John Hunwicke has cogently and wittily pointed out (Consecrated Women? : A Comparison, FiF, £2·50) have [...]
Arthur Middleton on defence of the common faith In wake of the heterodoxy hijacking the Anglican Communion, bishops in the southern hemisphere have been constantly censored for crossing diocesan and provincial boundaries to minister to orthodox Anglicans. Their actions to [...]
Urgent work Jane Gore Booth No doubt many readers of New Directions were despondent after July’s vote in principle to ordain women to the episcopate. In some ways, however, it was a good thing: if the motion had been defeated, [...]
Being disliked Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House One of the stickiest issues for many people is knowing how to deal with resentment and dislike towards and of other people. Much depends on individual personality; some people [...]
Alan Edwards wants to be an enthusiast but not quite sure what form it should take Hip Hop, Jesus Rocks, Let Me See That Left Foot Drop’ – one of the chants taught by the Federation of Christian Cheerleaders at [...]
Respect the argument From Mr R. Morant The Archbishop of Canterbury is reported recently to have said that he sees no theological objections to the ordination of women as bishops. What does he mean? Has he not read the FiF [...]
Spot the difference Interesting to read on the internet that the ‘success’ (sic) of the Campaign for the Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church led to the founding of the St Catherine of Siena Institute, a ‘network of [...]