NINETEEN Bishops are among more than 250 Church of England clergy who have signed a letter condemning a move to decriminalise women who induce their own abortion as “a dangerous change”.On Tuesday, MPs voted by 379 to 137 in…
THE old saying “A parish can be no better than its priest” is open to doubt. What is not open to doubt is that the Church of England is facing something of a crisis in clergy numbers.In 2020, there were 591 ordinands,…
AT A recent service that I attended, one of the clergy accidentally muted her personal microphone. Realising that her voice was not being amplified, she raised it and slightly slowed her pace. Everything was perfectly…
THE Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament is taking time to consider whether the new Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) is “expedient”, after a session on Tuesday in which its members asked questions of one of the lawyers in…
DISTRIBUTING large sums of the Church Commissioners’ funds to dioceses through the Strategic Investment in Mission and Ministry Board (SMMIB) is a mistake, the Bishop of Hereford, the Rt Revd Richard Jackson, said this…
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