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Don’t be sloppy or pernickety during mass, Pope tells priests
THE Pope has written an Apostolic Letter, Desiderio Desideravi, seeking the avoidance of two extremes of liturgical practice — aestheticism and sloppiness — in his effort to united the Roman Catholic Church around the celebration of the post-Vatic...

Ebbsfleet to be complementarian Evangelical: new Bishop of Oswestry to serve traditional Catholics
THE Dioceses Commission has approved changes of names to the bishoprics that provide episcopal ministry under the House of Bishops Declaration to conservative Evangelical and traditionalist Anglo-Catholic parishes. It was announced on Thursday tha...

Guarded welcome for Church’s plan for reducing carbon emissions
THE Church of England’s new plan for reducing carbon emissions to net zero by 2030 has been welcomed by environmental experts. But questions have been raised about the omission of the Church Commissioners’ land and fossil-fuel holdings. In the pas...

Court approves exhumation and return of remains for reinterment in US
WHEN a family living in the United States had been unaware that a close family member had died in England, and been buried in consecrated ground in an English cemetery, those were exceptional circumstances that rebutted the Christian presumption a...

‘I can do vicars’: Frank Williams dies, aged 90
“WELL . . . yes . . . I can do vicars,” the actor Frank Williams replied when his agent phoned him about a part in the BBC’s Home Guard comedy Dad’s Army. Thus began his lasting association in television and film audiences’ minds with the Revd Tim...

Climate-change protest held during Wells Cathedral eucharist
TEN Christians, including a priest, held a climate-change protest during the morning eucharist at Wells Cathedral, last Sunday. The campaigners, who were backed by banner-waving supporters outside the church, want Anglican dioceses to commit thems...