THE 250th anniversary of the foundation 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 ...

THE Christian Brothers Oceania Province, which includes Australia, has won a court moratorium on all current and future civil sexual-abuse claims, while it seeks court permission to create a creditors ...

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

Sarah Mullally, the former Bishop of London, is the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury. She is the first woman to hold the post. A service of installation is due to take place at Canterbury Cathedral in ...

The Church Times South West The verger team is at the heart of the Cathedral’s operational and liturgical life. The team is responsible for supporting the Dean, Residentiary Canons and other clergy to ...

“HE’S not the Messiah,” one MP called out, as Andy Burnham — the former Mayor of Manchester, newly elected MP for Makerfield, purported saviour of the Labour Party from electoral oblivion at the hands ...

‘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 ...

A NEW AI tool, Abraame, is being promoted as “the first AI-assisted platform for comparative study of the three Abrahamic traditions”. The platform, published by Airking DWC-LLC, which is based in ...

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MORE than 15 years ago, Baroness Warsi, then co-chair of the Conservative Party, warned that Islamophobia had passed the “dinner-table test”: it had become acceptable in respectable settings, voiced ...

THE term “Christian nationalism” should never be used when teaching the faithful or speaking on behalf of the Church, the College of Bishops has been advised by Canon Luke Bretherton, Regius Professor ...

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 ...