ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL could be insolvent within two years, a visitation has concluded. The report, completed in December but published this month, sets out a series of challenges, of which finance is ...

I HAVE spent quite a lot of time listening to the small and quirky stories of what happens in smaller churches, the ways in which there is such life and creativity, imagination, and vision that far ...

THE journey towards its designation as a minster is not the only significant change shaping the ecclesiastical landscape in St Helens. The St Helens deanery, in Liverpool diocese, along with West ...

THE diocese of Bristol announced on Wednesday that the person due to be announced as its next Bishop was no longer able to take up the position “due to family reasons”. The Bishop of Swindon, the Rt ...

PENTECOST marks a heightened awareness of the presence of the Holy Spirit at the end of a joyful Eastertide, and marks the beginning of what ought to be a new and vibrant spiritual life for Christians ...

CATHEDRAL deans are to meet MPs next month to discuss the financial sustainability of cathedrals in light of the Theos report, it was announced at the National Cathedrals Conference on Tuesday. Sir ...

IT IS much easier to condemn something if we think that we are not part of it. When it comes to anti-Semitism, churches have historically been part of the problem. Do we have the courage to admit that ...

CUSTODIAN of a choral tradition enjoying global respect, St John’s College, Cambridge, has stolen the show with its new organ. The college has replaced a neo-classical Mander of 1990s vintage with an ...

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THE Archbishop of York and the RC Bishop of Middlesbrough, the Rt Revd Terry Drainey, led an ecumenical pilgrimage through York on Wednesday, inspired by the late Pope Francis’s call to “walk together ...

MEN still outnumber women as incumbents by more than two to one in the Church of England, statistics published for the General Synod show. Across the dioceses, 30.4 per cent of incumbents are women.