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Supreme Court Takes Trump Birthright Citizenship Case
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments on President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship. The high court announced Friday that it will hear arguments regarding Trump’s executive order that would revoke…
Bishops take Government to task on mansion tax, church repairs, and SEND funding in Budget debate
FEW parishes will be able to pay the so-called “mansion tax”, and dioceses will not be able to absorb the cost, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, warned on Thursday, during a House of Lords debate on the Autumn…
Bishop of Leicester joins children’s charities in welcoming new Child Poverty Strategy
THE Government’s new Child Poverty Strategy makes “important steps”, but lacks ambition, the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, has said.The strategy, announced on Friday, will lift about 550,000 children out of…
Supreme Court Lets Texas to Use Redistricting Maps for Midterms
The Supreme Court allowed Texas’ redistricting maps to remain in place for the 2026 midterms in a 6-3 unsigned opinion Thursday. The maps could grant the GOP five additional seats in the House of Representatives. Thursday’s…
Clergy ‘feel isolated’ and lonely, latest Living Ministry study concludes
WHILE almost three-quarters of the clergy participating in a ten-year study agreed that they were fulfilling their sense of vocation, 40 per cent felt isolated in their ministry, a report published this week reveals.Lord, for…
Priest in Chelmsford diocese barred from schoolteaching over safeguarding failure
A VICAR in the diocese of Chelmsford has been barred from schoolteaching, and has stepped back from ministry, over his failure to report that a convicted sex offender in his congregation was in danger of breaching a…
Reminder of a hope beyond politics
ON HIS deathbed, the Emperor Constantine was baptised by an Arian bishop, Eusebius of Nicomedia. Yet, last Friday, he was remembered chiefly as the convener of the church Council that rejected Arius’s contention that the Son…
Clergy Discipline Commission reprimands bishops
THE Clergy Discipline Commission has expressed disappointment at bishops’ infrequent use of conciliation in disciplinary cases, in an annual report that also warns that their “lack of attention” has resulted in a “greatly…
Organist’s 25-hour music marathon is fuelled by ‘tea and biscuits’
THE director of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), Hugh Morris, has completed a 25-hour organ marathon to “raise the profile” of the instrument and to raise funds for Play the Organ Year. Mr Morris, accompanied…
Music is the food of love at St Jude-on-the-Hill
WRITING about the consecration, in May 1911, of St Jude-on-the-Hill, the architect Edwin Lutyens’s contribution to the social reformer Henrietta Barnett’s pioneering Hampstead Garden Suburb, the Church Times reporter ended by…
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