THE “inability” of the National Safeguarding Team’s (NST) staff to say that they believed a survivor’s account of rapes was “one of the most damaging” aspects of its handling of her case, an ...

Proper 11: Wisdom of Solomon 12.13, 16-19 or Isaiah 44.6-8; Psalm 86.11-17; Romans 8.12-25; Matthew 13.24-30, 36-43 READING this Gospel evoked an ancient Christian problem, post-baptismal sin, which ...

THE General Synod, after hours of impassioned debate and procedural delays, has voted to “hear” a document that describes Israel as a “colonial enterprise” that inflicted a “genocidal war on Gaza”. A ...

The Churches’ Legislation Advisory Service told the Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee’s “Protecting Built Heritage” inquiry that thousands of historic places of worship depended on volunteers: ...

GOD did not make a mistake when he made us all,” the Bishop of Dover (Canterbury), the Rt Revd Rose Hudson-Wilkin, said on Monday during a General Synod debate on the compatibility of same-sex ...

CLERGY who are disqualified from driving as a result of a series of minor driving and highway offences will have to report the fact to their bishop, under the new Clergy Conduct Measure Rules. The ...

“MANY in the Church have been wounded,” and, to heal, trust must be nurtured, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in her sermon at York Minster on Sunday, midway through the meeting of General Synod.

He remains ‘deeply pained’ by ongoing disagreements over sexuality, he says in presidential address to the Synod meeting in York ...

ANN WIDDECOMBE, the former Conservative minister turned Reform UK campaigner, who was received into the Roman Catholic Church after the ordination of women in the Church of England, has died, aged 78.

IN 1978, the annual BBC Reith Lectures were delivered by the Revd Dr Edward Norman, a lecturer in History at Cambridge University and a distinguished church historian. He took as his theme ...