A NETWORK of churches in Southend, in Essex, is to receive a share of the £1.6 million awarded to the diocese of Chelmsford by the Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board (SMMIB). The award is ...

A SUBMISSION of 1,000 pages of WhatsApp messages, Snapchat messages, and photographs has proved decisive in a Tribunal concluding that a sexual relationship took place between a priest and his lodger.

Paul Vallely and Nick Spencer join Ed Thornton on the podcast this week to discuss how Andy Burnham’s Roman Catholicism influences his politics.

THE 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence fell at a time when the stories of the nation’s government and the Episcopal Church were “most sharply diverging”, the Presiding Bishop, Dr ...

‘The State did not do enough to protect mothers, children, and families from harm. For this systemic failure, I am truly sorry’ SIR KEIR STARMER has formally apologised for the part played by the ...

RULES accompanying the new Clergy Conduct Measure will come before General Synod next month. This follows a vote in the House of Lords on Wednesday to send the Measure to the King for Royal Assent.

THE General Synod’s agenda this month includes a motion from the Neurodiversity Working Group recommending how the Church should better cater for the needs of neurodiverse people. It points out that ...

A POIGNANT piece of unclaimed lost property — an urn containing human ashes — will be interred in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Greenham, in Berkshire, after a faculty was granted by the ...

Proper 9: Zechariah 9.9-12; Psalm 145.8-15; Romans 7.15-25a; Matthew 11.16-19,25-30 THE meaning of Matthew 11.16-19, according to one commentary, has been “contested for centuries”. To understand it, ...

BROWNING. The Revd Kevin Browning, Vicar of South Hornchurch (Chelmsford): 24 July. CROFTS. The Revd Zoe Crofts, Rector of the Cherington with Newington Benefice (Canterbury): 6 September. CONEYS. The ...

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