Austen Ivereigh

If this is the end of the Anglican Communion I don rsquo t think anybody has told most of the people here rdquo was the Archbishop of Canterbury rsquo s recent summary of the difference between the way the world views the Lambeth Conference and the way those taking part see it He made the remar

The Guardian has obtained a letter by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone the Vatican rsquo s secretary of state addressed to the delegates attending the Lambeth conference of 650 Anglican bishops worldwide There rsquo s not much surprising in it ndash ldquo New issues that have arisen in our relationsh

An alarming ndash because wholly plausible ndash article in the British science journal Nature nbsp looks ahead to the future of human reproduction As they might say on the starship Enterprise it rsquo s fertility Jim but not as we know it Thirty years since the birth of the world rsquo s f

My old boss the Archbishop of Westminster will not unusually be leading the annual diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes which begins Sunday This in spite of it being the 150th anniversary of the apparitions and Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O rsquo Connor rsquo s last Lourdes pilgrimage as Archbishop of We

There is a story in the Independent newspaper — not normally one to run a religious ldquo exclusive rdquo — that the Catholic Church rsquo s policy faced with the Anglican meltdown is to do what it can to help Dr Rowan Williams to hold it together nbsp ldquo Pope rides to Rowan s rescue rdq

Gene Robinson the openly gay American Bishop of New Hampshire whose consecration in 2003 sparked the current Anglican crisis was forced to halt his sermon at a London church today after a lone heckler nbsp with a motorcycle helmet nbsp disrupted the service nbsp When Robinson mentioned the ldq

I helped organise a rally around Parliament today which was a terrific reminder of what the Anglican faith is capable of when it is not mired in internal ecclesiological arguments A service at Westminster Abbey for Zimbabwe led by the Uganda-born Archbishop of York John Sentamu was followed by

One of the three ldquo flying bishops rdquo ndash given the task after the 1992 Church of England vote to ordain women of ministering to traditionalists who objected to the move ndash says he wants to cross the Tiber The Daily Telegraph reports that the Bishop of Ebbsfleet the Rt Rev Andre

The Vatican rsquo s reaction to the Church of England rsquo s historic decision to press ahead with the consecration of women as bishops without compromise measures was pretty much as expected Such a decision signifies a breaking away from the apostolic tradition maintained by all of the churches

The debate was long more than seven hours emotional one bishop wept and often bitter ldquo we rsquo re being squeezed out rdquo said one Anglo-Catholic But yesterday rsquo s decision of General Synod the Church of England rsquo s ruling body was clear there will be women bishops aft