Catholics and Anglicans are to pray together for the conversion of the nation
The bishops of England and Wales have asked Catholics to join in an Anglican week of prayer for the conversion of the country. Fr Christopher Thomas, general secretary of the bishops’ conference, told...
View ArticleA witty but alarming take on the Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch is a professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, an acclaimed telly don and a knight. He is also prodigiously learned and productive – and has won (deservedly) pretty well...
View ArticleChristianity without nostalgia
My baptismal certificate gives the time and place – as an infant, in the mid-20th century, in a parish of the Church of England, at the hands of the vicar. But how was I to understand this baptism? I...
View ArticleWhat’s inside this week’s magazine?
Cover Story… Mother Teresa worked us so hard we were worn out, recalls Fr Alexander Sherbrooke More Comment… Is the saint of Calcutta really a model we can imitate, asks Fr Raymond de Souza Thomas Pink...
View ArticleEcumenism can’t be based on wishful thinking about the past
One hopes that the Pope enjoyed his recent visit to All Saints in the Via del Babuino, a rather fine Anglican Church in the heart of Rome, the work of the famous architect G E Street. In the course of...
View ArticleWhat Anglicans get right about angels
Theologically speaking, the stock of the angels in the Church has been falling pretty steadily since its Berkshire Hathaway-like peak in the 5th century, when the celestial hierarchy was outlined by...
View ArticleConservative Anglicans are close to despair. Is the CofE about to split?
Anyone with a lick of sense can see that the Church of England is in serious trouble. Congregational decline, child abuse scandals, and financially desperate cathedrals are just the most obvious...
View ArticleThe lesson of Anglicanism: liberalism will tear you apart
A former Anglican Chaplain to the Queen, the Revd Gavin Ashenden, is spearheading a revolt in the Church of England Synod over the thorny issue of homosexuality. Anglicans are talking openly about...
View ArticleWhy Anglo-Catholics don’t join the Ordinariate
Last week on this site, Francis Phillips noted the many “traditionally Catholic features” of some High Anglican parishes, and wondered why more Anglo-Catholics (like me) do not join the Ordinariate. We...
View ArticleProtestantism’s biggest problem: on whose authority do we interpret the...
On Saturday I joined a group of Anglican and Methodists in our village to walk around its familiar landmarks offering prayers. We started at the (pre-Reformation) Anglican church, moved on to the war...
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