When Church leaders proclaim on matters of government policy they run the risk of coming unstuck
Topic: Church of England
The Catholic Church was right not to join critics of Iain Duncan Smith’s benefit reforms
Posted on Thursday, 4 April 2013
Parliament should beware taking a People’s Republic of China approach to women bishops
Posted on Friday, 23 November 2012
Something rather sinister has happened in the wake of the General Synod vote
Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/11/12
Posted on Thursday, 22 November 2012
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Well, they’ve done it again. But the opponents of women bishops have only put off the evil day: and next time there may be no ‘special arrangements’
Posted on Wednesday, 21 November 2012
The arguments for women priests were wholly secular. This is, in any case, the state Church: and in the end the state will decide
The Anglicans who voted against women bishops showed true Dunkirk spirit
Posted on Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Now the ‘Church in turmoil’ headline will run for another five years
Dr Rowan Williams says that ‘aggressive secularism’ has nothing to do with persecution; Lord Carey and Bishop Nazir-Ali disagree. Who’s right?
Posted on Monday, 10 September 2012
Dr Williams speaks from the perspective of the high table and senior common room: but Dr Nazir-Ali has actually been persecuted
Cardinal: disestablishment would benefit the Church of England
Posted on Friday, 24 August 2012
Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor celebrates his 80th birthday today
The Church of England being what it is, no Archbishop of Canterbury can succeed: but Rowan Williams has failed more disastrously than most
Posted on Monday, 19 March 2012
He is supposed to be a theologian: but his actions have been theologically incoherent
If a woman is a priest, she can also be a bishop: if she’s not, she can’t. Either way, there is now only one way out for Catholic Anglicans: it’s over the Tiber
Posted on Wednesday, 8 February 2012
The notion of setting up another ghetto for dissidents is simply ludicrous
Morning Catholic must-reads: 08/01/13
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