RULES accompanying the new Clergy Conduct Measure will come before General Synod next month. This follows a vote in the House of Lords on Wednesday to send the Measure to the King for Royal Assent.

The topic was patronage in the Church of England — the right to nominate a priest to a vacant parish post. After listening to an hour-long speech, peers agreed to the Bishop’s request that a select ...

ANYONE who thought that the UK’s relationship with the European Union was settled once and for all on 23 June 2016 might ponder two new facts that emerged last week. First, the BBC reported that new ...

“STRONG frustration” that a report on the seal of confession remains with the House of Bishops and has “effectively been paused for over a year” has been expressed by members of the Task and Finish ...

IN 2018, Archbishop Welby, a former Canon of Coventry and Dean of Liverpool, declared that cathedrals should be “places of celebration and joy and good news”. He also said that they should be “fun”.