In 2015, the Court of Appeal rejected claims from Unite that beneficed clergy with freehold should be treated as employees or ...

THE Bishop of St Albans since 2009, Dr Alan Smith, is to retire on 31 May, when he will be 68, he announced on Tuesday.

THE Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has pledged to introduce mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse, so that it becomes an ...

THE Archbishop of York has led tributes to a former diocesan chancellor and General Synod chair, Geoffrey Tattersall KC, who ...

MISINFORMATION is masking the true scale of the child-abuse crisis in the UK, a campaign group led by Professor Alexis Jay ...

THE costliest climate disasters of 2024 killed more than 2000 people and cost at least $200 billion (£161 million) in damages ...

THE Archbishop of Canterbury, whose official duties end at midnight, is to spend his last day in office privately at Lambeth ...

Instead of excluding the Baptist from participating in the Spirit’s descent through baptism, John’s Gospel makes him the prophet of the Spirit’s descent, a witness to the Spirit’s descent, and — most ...

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THE Anglican Communion is moving “from a season of raw and antagonistic division to one of reckoning with what will likely be ...

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THE threefold character of the festival is of ancient origin. The 13th-century liturgist William Durand referred to the ...