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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...

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A 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...

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Christianity 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...

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What’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...

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Ecumenism 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...

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What 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...

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Conservative 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...

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The 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...

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Why 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...

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Protestantism’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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