RADICAL reform of the National Church Institutions (NCIs), including the abolition of the Archbishops’ Council, has been halted after the parliamentary Ecclesiastical Committee deemed the legislation ...

THE 98th Archbishop of York has pledged anew to “love and preach the gospel of salvation”, as his 12th-century predecessor, St William of York, had done. He was speaking at an 800th-anniversary ...

A YEAR of “significant organisational change and upheaval” under way at the Church Army will entail property disposal and the closure of its Marylebone project supporting homeless women. This week, ...

THE Master of the Company of Ringers at Lincoln Cathedral, Jeremy Wheeldon, has said that it is “a great honour” to have his name added to the wall of the Ringers’ Chapel. The company “is the oldest ...

THE diocese of Leeds has been awarded a further £11 million by the Strategic Mission and Ministry Investment Board (SMMIB) for its strategy Barnabas: Encouraging Confidence. The diocese reports that ...

MUSIC students are mystified, they say, by resonances recorded in Salisbury Cathedral and described by one of them as “a weird pinging”. “We’ve been trying to hit it again, but we weren’t able to find ...

AS THE Most Revd Sarah Mullally walks the Pilgrims’ Way towards Canterbury for her installation as Archbishop on Wednesday, the Revd Professor Andrew Atherstone has published an intriguing biography ...

THE next Bishop of St Albans is to be Dr Andrew Rumsey, who has been the Area Bishop of Ramsbury, in the diocese of Salisbury, since 2019, Downing Street announced on Thursday. He succeeds Dr Alan ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday night against the decriminalisation of abortions carried out outside the legal framework, said that the legislation “risks ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury set out on a six-day pilgrimage on foot from London to Canterbury Cathedral on Tuesday afternoon, as part of the spiritual preparation for her installation there next ...

“IT’S a gorgeous place,” Brother Felix tells me enthusiastically on Zoom from his monastery between two Worcestershire villages, where the patchy WiFi is compensated for by the views over the rolling ...

THIS is the third Sunday in a row in which John’s Gospel reveals something about divine truth through Jesus’s interactions with women. Two weeks ago, it was a Samaritan woman. Then, last week, came ...