Asked by the Daily Mail if the Prince [of Wales] believes in God, the response from Kensington Palace last night was unequivocal: ‘Of course’”
Robert Hardman, Daily Mail, 23 March
Being a believer, or at least convincingly seeming to be a believer, is a job requirement, a necessary qualification — William can’t really be King if he cannot manage that. The King is an anointed king. That anointing is just mumbo jumbo if you are not yourself a Christian
Tom Holland, historian, quoted in The Sunday Times, 22 March
She [Archbishop Mullally] intends to carry the nursing values of compassion and what she calls “person-centred care” into her role as Archbishop. Let’s hope she does, because the Church of England is becoming a centralised, bureaucratically unwieldy behemoth. And its clergy and parishioners could do with a bit more “person-centred care”
Ysenda Maxtone Graham, the Telegraph, 25 March
Above all she [Archbishop Mullally] is a woman of deep faith. She has a message to give about Christ crucified and risen from the dead. Her pilgrimage from London to Canterbury in preparation for her installation was a simple but deeply affecting act of witness. If she began as she means to continue, then there is hope for the Church of England yet
Catherine Pepinster, the Telegraph, 24 March
The Bible was a huge part of my formative years and I stopped going to church as a teen, but retained a connection to something greater than me. I never believed you just die and become worm meat. I always thought there was something else and that remains, even if I don’t sit around reading Psalm III looking for answers
Paapa Essiedu, actor, interview in The Sunday Times, 22 March
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