“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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

OUR “democracy is under threat today,” the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, has said. Unless this threat is addressed, “the temptation will be to look for even more radical solutions, and ...

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.

A CIBORIUM made from potato-starch plastic by using a 3D printer is proving a success in a Gloucester parish. “It does the job perfectly,” says the honorary assistant priest of St James’s, Quedgeley, ...

THE medieval Franciscan poet Jacopone da Todi (1230-1306) once lamented: “I see Paris demolish Assisi stone by stone.” What irritated Jacopone was the increased number of Franciscans studying theology ...

THE Church Commissioners’ argument that fiduciary duties prevent their backing the international goal of protecting 30 per cent of land and sea for nature by 2030 has been challenged by a legal ...

ACTIVISTS have welcomed the release of an influential Chinese house-church pastor, detained since October (News, 27 February), but have questioned China’s motives. The pastor, Mingri Ezra Jin, also ...

A DOUBLE recorder is an arresting sight: two pipes joined by a triangular slat, meeting in a single mouthpiece at the top, with holes distributed along each pipe. Emily Baines, half of the Amyas ...