THERE has been much criticism of the Rt Revd Justin Welby for saying, in a BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg this week, that he “forgives” John Smyth. In reality, his comments were much more nuanced ...

A VATICAN official has denied claims made by the Roman Catholic Church in Germany that Rome has approved same-sex blessing ceremonies, almost two years after the document Fiducia Supplicans first ...

AT THE earliest opportunity, in April 1981, Sarah Bowser, aged 19, was elected to the PCC of St Stephen’s, South Lambeth. It was her first taste of Anglican committee work, which later came to ...

A JUDGE in the United States has granted an injunction to allow clergy to minister to migrants at a detention centre in Minnesota, the state at the centre of the Trump administration’s most severe ...

WE ARE fasting — in the hollow hunger of Lent. We are waiting — in the entombed darkness of Saturday. We are watching — for the golden dawn of Easter, the turning of death to life. And then we hear it ...

A BEQUEST made by a clergyman who died in 1994 has helped the National Trust to buy a dramatic stretch of the Cornish coast near Mevagissey, where he ministered for almost 30 years and which he ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has said that she found her installation at Canterbury Cathedral on Wednesday “deeply moving”. The Most Revd Sarah Mullally, who was visibly emotional while being ...

SIX months after the announcement in Canterbury Cathedral that the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, had been nominated as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury ( News, 10 October 2025 ), the ...

THE Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley, expressed concern on Friday for those with “additional vulnerability to coercion” when it comes to assisted dying — “especially due to cultural and ...