The Church of England being what it is, no Archbishop of Canterbury can...
Rowan Williams’s decision to leave Lambeth Palace and to move at the end of the year (I suspect with enormous relief) into the Master’s lodge at Magdalene, Cambridge, evokes in me two distinct...
View ArticleWe should respect minority religious laws, Muslim, Jewish or Hindu: but only...
A Muslim hospital consultant was told last week that he must pay his ex-wife maintenance even though under Islamic law he believes he owes her nothing. An appeal court judge, Lord Justice Ward, told Dr...
View ArticleCardinal Murphy-O’Connor: ‘I thought of being called Benedict if elected pope’
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor is the first man to survive being Archbishop of Westminster. Unlike his predecessors, who died in office, he walked out of Archbishop’s House, aged 76, to begin a life...
View ArticleDr Rowan Williams says that ‘aggressive secularism’ has nothing to do with...
Well, we had been warned (not that many of us were exactly quaking in our boots): Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, as he prepares to step down from his position as head of the Anglican...
View ArticleNick Clegg tells archbishops: I did not use the word ‘bigot’
The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has written to the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales to distance himself from the claim that he considered the opponents of...
View ArticleToday’s Catholic must-reads: 03/10/12
“We cannot pray to God individualistically,” Benedict XVI said at this morning’s general audience (video). A businessman staged a protest against the Italian government on the dome of St Peter’s...
View ArticleDr Rowan Williams: joint prayer and contemplation are key to evangelising the...
Dr Rowan Williams has told Pope Benedict XVI and the Synod of Bishops that evangelisation is not a project, but the natural “overflow” of an experience of Christ and his Church that transforms lives,...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 11/10/12
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, addressed the synod of bishops on the new evangelisation yesterday and had a final private audience with Benedict XVI before his retirement in December...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 30/11/12
The Holy See has welcomed the United Nations vote granting observer status to Palestine and appealed for “an internationally guaranteed special statute” for Jerusalem (full text). The global media has...
View ArticleMorning Catholic must-reads: 19/12/12
A proposed new law on abortion in Ireland will “pave the way for the direct and intentional killing of unborn children“, four Irish archbishops said yesterday (full text). Christians are the largest...
View ArticleRowan Williams is wrong. If Christians in Britain face persecution, they...
Lord Williams of Oystermouth, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has spoken at a literary festival and made some observations about the persecution of Christians in this country and abroad, and how...
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Christians must pull together to face global challenges, says former...
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Williams of Oystermouth has said Christians should “pull together” to tackle society’s challenges with more “weight”. He was speaking before his talk at...
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