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4 days ago · Tudor’s reappointment as area dean comes back to haunt Archbishop of York. A PRIEST accused of child sexual abuse, who had paid a settlement to one of his alleged victims, was reappointed twice as an area dean in the diocese of Chelmsford, the BBC reported on Sunday, leading to renewed pressure on the Archbishop of York, who was the diocesan Bishop at …
Church Times Review of the Year 2024
Dec 20, 2024 · A WAVE of Russian missile strikes on Ukraine marked the start of 2024, killing and injuring hundreds. The strikes were condemned by Ukrainian religious leaders. The Revd Paula Vennells, the Anglican priest who was chief executive of the Post Office during the Horizon IT scandal, said that she would ...
Pope Francis calls for 2025 to be a year of ‘forgiveness and freedom’
1 day ago · The message follows a year of continuing bloody conflicts from Ukraine to Gaza, accompanied by widespread dissatisfaction over the outcome of the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, in Baku, and other international initiatives.. It develops the themes set out in the Pope’s latest encyclical, Dilexit nos (“He loved us”), calling for a rediscovery of love and compassion ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Bishop of Warrington ‘away from diocese’ THE Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, in the diocese of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Beverley Mason, is currently “away from the diocese”, clergy were informed at last week’s chrism eucharist.A statement was read out, which said that “with the permission of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of …
Church is facing ‘existential crisis’ over safeguarding, says Bishop …
Dec 10, 2024 · THE Church of England is facing “one of the biggest existential crises . . . since the Reformation”, in the wake of the Makin Review into abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Jonathan Gibbs, said on Tuesday.. Speaking after voting in favour of a diocesan synod motion that expressed no confidence in the Archbishops’ Council’s oversight of safeguarding (News, 10 ...
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Dec 19, 2024 · Retired bishop marks ten years of hosting people at risk of homelessness. THE youth homelessness charity, DePaul UK, has described as “heartwarming” the reunion of one of its Nightstop service users with two of its hosts, the Rt Revd Mark Bryant, an assistant bishop in the diocese of Newcastle, and his wife, Elisabeth
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
Aug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
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Jun 16, 2017 · Lord Harries’s British-values Bill progresses unamended. A BILL to extend the “British values” taught in schools to freedom of religion and respect for the environment, proposed by the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries, will now move to its Third Reading in the House of Lords, after no amendments were tabled.In the introduction to the Second Reading of his Education (Values of British ...
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Rededication of stone carving. AN ANCIENT stone carving believed by some historians to be the earliest-known sculpture of St Thomas Becket has been restored to the chancel of St Lawrence’s, Godmersham, in Kent — a church on the ancient pilgrim route between Winchester and Canterbury — and rededicated (News, 31 May).The service last weekend was attended by both Anglican and Roman Catholic ...