THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of France has urged opponents in the country’s legislature to continue to resist the introduction of assisted dying, after a Bill to legalise it was passed again last ...

TOP COMMENT is a new BBC podcast that analyses social-media trends: it follows the money and ideologies behind people who shape our perceptions. In its debut episode, “Decline Porn Explained, and Why ...

I SHOULD have made a will 20 years ago. When I eventually got round to it, what shook me out of my complacency was the prospect of doing it theologically. By that, I don’t primarily mean leaving money ...

THE Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, has backed a Bill requiring the Secretary of State to take the necessary steps for Britain’s chalk streams to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage status ...

TO ACT with impunity is to act without fear of consequences. Like Richard III, we imagine that we can wound, deflect, distort — and carry on untouched. Ours is an age increasingly tempted by that ...

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AS CONFLICT spread across the Middle East after the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the weekend, the Archbishop in Jerusalem, Dr Hosam Naoum, condemned the “cycle of ...

THIS Gospel is one of the longest set for a principal service outside Passiontide. Length alone tells us that the message must be important, must be taken as a whole, and must be covert as well as ...

A NEW annotated edition of the Bible, published by the Bible Society and the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), contains more than 1000 notes, prompts, stories, and features to ...

THE Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) returned to the General Synod on the Tuesday morning. Given the Synod’s final approval in February 2025, it had then been deemed “not expedient” by the parliamentary ...