Paul Vallely and Nick Spencer join Ed Thornton on the podcast this week to discuss how Andy Burnham’s Roman Catholicism influences his politics.

“HE’S not the Messiah,” one MP called out, as Andy Burnham — the former Mayor of Manchester, newly elected MP for Makerfield, purported saviour of the Labour Party from electoral oblivion at the hands ...

MORE than 15 years ago, Baroness Warsi, then co-chair of the Conservative Party, warned that Islamophobia had passed the “dinner-table test”: it had become acceptable in respectable settings, voiced ...

CARING for the environment is “an essential part of following Jesus”, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have said in a new teaching document. Hope for All Creation: A theological response to the ...

A POIGNANT piece of unclaimed lost property — an urn containing human ashes — will be interred in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Greenham, in Berkshire, after a faculty was granted by the ...

ADDRESSING the House of Lords in 1874, the Bishop of Peterborough, Dr William Connor Magee, delivered a thunderous denunciation. “We know only too well the announcements of ‘eligible livings’, with ...

“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 ...

THE election of the first Bishop of the new Episcopal missionary diocese of Navajoland, in the United States, has been postponed for a second time, with no explanation, just two days before it was due ...

The Church Times South West The verger team is at the heart of the Cathedral’s operational and liturgical life. The team is responsible for supporting the Dean, Residentiary Canons and other clergy to ...

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THE Bishop of Lichfield, Dr Michael Ipgrave, was “clearly correct” in taking no further action against the Revd Tim Hastie-Smith concerning the handling of reports about John Smyth’s abusive behaviour ...