Austen Ivereigh

Just as Dr Rowan Williams heads off for some well-earned rest after saving the nbsp Anglican Communion nbsp letters have come to light which chart his changing position on the gay question more than 20 years ago An evangelical Christian in Wales with whom he corresponded on the issue of homosexual

The Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s press people will be smiling this morning lsquo How Williams kept his flock together rsquo is the Guardian rsquo s headline lsquo Way ahead found in Church gay row rsquo is the BBC rsquo s while the London Times rsquo s nbsp runs lsquo Bishops back Arch

My parish priest ndash who is not a Jesuit by the way — this morning preached on St Ignatius of Loyola rsquo s remarkable insight into the way the movements of the spirit nbsp produce feelings that are a sure guide to where God is calling people Consolation ndash the movement of God rsquo s S

As a former press secretary in the Catholic Church it was a source of constant amazement to me how the media loved any story that involved monks and modernity ndash while being entirely uninterested in a carefully-crafted intervention in the public square by a cardinal The sort of story that is

The world rsquo s Anglican bishops gathered at Canterbury this week learned a new German word courtesy of Cardinal Walter Kasper head of the Vatican rsquo s Christian unity council Nabelschau is ldquo the tendency of looking too much at our navels rdquo he told nbsp ecumenical observers at a 2

In his address to the Lambeth Conference in its final crucial days the Archbishop of Canterbury has outlined what he believes the world rsquo s Anglican bishops need to do in order to find the unity which will carry them through their current crisis It is a blinder of a speech and I detect two b

It now looks as if the Lambeth Conference is beginning to go in the direction hoped for by both the Archbishop of Canterbury and Rome ndash preventing schism through the centralisation of authority nbsp The three major proposals are these nbsp 1 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp A new Ang

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor s address to the global summit of Anglican bishops meeting at Canterbury reminds them that the framework they are currently seeking has already been agreed to by the Anglican Church in decades of Catholic-Anglican dialogue aiming at unity between the two Churche