Author of the bishops’ report says LCP is not ‘inherently unethical’ but has been ‘badly implemented’
Topic: Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
Bishops’ conference advises Government over children of Catholic Royals
Posted on Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Lord Wallace discloses Church’s advice during House of Lords debate
Bishops’ briefing on same-sex marriage Bill: full text
Posted on Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Here we publish the bishops’ conference briefing in full
Bishops to send out a million postcards on marriage
Posted on Thursday, 17 January 2013
In accompanying letter Archbishop Smith urges priests to ‘do all you can’ to oppose Bill
Nuncio urges bishops: fight Lord Falconer’s assisted suicide Bill
Posted on Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Bill, to be introduced in the Commons in January, is the sixth attempt to legalise assisted suicide in a decade
England and Wales to see sharp rise in ordinations
Posted on Thursday, 21 June 2012
Number of priestly ordinations expected to almost double in two years
Nuncio urges bishops to be outspoken in their defence of Church teaching
Posted on Friday, 27 April 2012
Archbishop Mennini says ‘we must not lose hope in dialogue’ with the secular world
Morning Catholic must-reads: 15/03/12
Posted on Thursday, 15 March 2012
A daily guide to what’s happening in the Catholic Church
Bishops to urge Catholics to write to MPs about same-sex marriage
Posted on Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Archbishops will also issue a pastoral letter about the importance of marriage to society
Why is there in the Church, on both sides of the Atlantic, such a failure of leadership? Is it because it is being frustrated by bishops’ conferences?
The bureaucratisation of the hierarchy has left the Church rudderless and ineffective