THE predatory behaviour behind grooming gangs is “not a pattern of offending confined to any particular ethnic, cultural, or religious group”, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, said this week ...

THE election of the first Bishop of the new Episcopal missionary diocese of Navajoland, in the United States, has been postponed for a second time, with no explanation, just two days before it was due ...

The topic was patronage in the Church of England — the right to nominate a priest to a vacant parish post. After listening to an hour-long speech, peers agreed to the Bishop’s request that a select ...

THE appointment of an executive principal with oversight over both Trinity College, Bristol, and St Mellitus College is “a constructive response to the realities facing the theological education ...

“STRONG frustration” that a report on the seal of confession remains with the House of Bishops and has “effectively been paused for over a year” has been expressed by members of the Task and Finish ...

OF THE five sitting Conservative MPs to have defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, much the most significant is Danny Kruger. True, the 51-year-old MP for East Wiltshire is not a former Home Secretary ...

IN 2018, Archbishop Welby, a former Canon of Coventry and Dean of Liverpool, declared that cathedrals should be “places of celebration and joy and good news”. He also said that they should be “fun”.

THE sudden announcement in 2008 that Scargill House, in Yorkshire, was to close elicited both sorrow and anger. It was the rationale articulated by the trustees which particularly provoked the Rt Revd ...

A PRIEST in Bradford has complained about Yorkshire Gas and Power (YGP) to the Energy Ombudsman after a community centre incurred a bill of £17,000 for four months. The Interim Priest-in-Charge of ...