THIS Gospel is one of the longest set for a principal service outside Passiontide. Length alone tells us that the message must be important, must be taken as a whole, and must be covert as well as ...

The Mirror and the Light, the conclusion to Dame Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, was published in March, and has since been nominated for both the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. It ...

THE TIMES carried a really excellent fact-check and demolition job by its religious-affairs correspondent, Kaya Burgess, on Reform UK’s proposal to help save Britain’s “Christian heritage”. The ...

THE General Synod voted overwhelmingly to accept the Parochial Fees Order 2026 and keep burial fees as they stood at present. A series of amendments had enabled the Synod to reject a proposed one-off ...

THE enduring nature of poverty and the Church’s capacity to relieve it were the subject of a resumed debate on the Thursday morning. Mark Sheard (Archbishops’ Council) reminded members they were ...

THE Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) returned to the General Synod on the Tuesday morning. Given the Synod’s final approval in February 2025, it had then been deemed “not expedient” by the parliamentary ...

THE Church’s outsourcing of its safeguarding work to an independent body was endorsed overwhelmingly by the General Synod on the Wednesday afternoon, in a vote by 354-1 with three recorded abstentions ...

POPE FRANCIS smiles warmly as he stares into the camera, his arm around the shoulder of a bearded, long-haired man in white robes. The man, also smirking, holds up a glass of water, and, as the camera ...

IT IS estimated that there are between 40 and 42 million prostituted people worldwide, 80 per cent of whom are women and girls. Reem Alsalem, the United Nations’ special rapporteur for violence ...

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