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 ...

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.

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 ...

I HAVE always known that I am adopted. But I did not know until a few years ago that the Church of England had overseen my forced adoption. The Church has now published a report on historical adoption ...

BRITAIN is turning over Prime Ministers — six in ten years — at almost the precipitous rate at which Manchester United changes its managers: eight since the departure of the long-serving Sir Alex ...

HAVING begun my ministry as a mother of young children, and, therefore, a somewhat obscure member of the local population, known more for being “the mother of X” than a person in my own right, I ...

ARMSTRONG. The Revd Susan Armstrong, NS Associate Vicar of Rotherham Minster and Masbrough (Sheffield): 26 July. BURSON-THOMAS. The Revd Michael Burson-Thomas, Hon. Priest-in-Charge of Pennington ...

THE predatory behaviour behind grooming gangs is “not a pattern of offending confined to any particular ethnic, cultural, or religious group”, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, said this week ...