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Welby prays Lambeth Conference won’t be dominated by human sexuality

The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed his sincerest wish, if not profoundest hope, and quite possibly his most earnest prayer that this summer's Lambeth Conference won't be dominated (again) by debates around human sexuality. It's an interesting plea, not least…

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Westminster Abbey to install memorial bust of Margaret Thatcher — at last!

April 1, 2022
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Westminster Abbey includes the graves of many notable politicians and memorials to former prime ministers, and from the 1970s the previous Dean of Westminster, the Very Rev'd Dr John Hall,…

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Daily Mail adopts sharia to censor Mohammed image

March 31, 2022
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The Daily Mail reported yesterday that another teacher has been suspended for showing an image of Mohammed. This image hadn't been shown in a classroom setting for educational purposes, however,…

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Praying for Putin’s downfall, doom and destruction

March 28, 2022
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There was a prayer for Ukraine in church on Sunday: "Lord, we pray for peace in Ukraine, and that Putin would see sense." That was it. There was no mention…

Rustat 1 – 0 Welby | Jesus College Cambridge must retain its memorial to Tobias Rustat

March 24, 2022
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"Why is it so much agony to remove a memorial to slavery?" pleaded the Archbishop of Canterbury to Synod in February, as he bemoaned the fact that the Master of…

Why doesn’t Patriarch Kirill excommunicate Putin forthwith?

March 22, 2022
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In the flaming ruins and rubble of Mariupol, dogs are eating people and people are eating dogs. Bloodied corpses line the streets, some covered with dusty sheets for burial shrouds,…

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Welby and Kirill demand peace in Ukraine (but woolliness won’t stop war)

March 18, 2022
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The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Patriarch of Moscow have had a video conference in which they both agreed on the need for disciples of Jesus to be peacemakers, and…

Homes for Ukraine: finally, a refugee programme we can be proud of

March 14, 2022
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It has taken a while, but the UK now has a compassionate refugee programme responsive to the crisis unfolding in Ukraine, which is the worst refugee crisis seen in Europe…

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The hypocrisy of the Canons of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

March 11, 2022
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Yesterday, the Rev'd Angela Tilby, an Emeritus Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, was blocked on Twitter by someone in the Cathedral. This wasn't the first time she had been…

John Bercow had ‘unholy row’ with the Church over Speaker’s Chaplain

March 9, 2022
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Former Speaker John Bercow has been found to be a "serial bully" and a "serial liar". This is the judgment of an Independent Expert Panel appointed to investigate his behaviour…

Patriarch Kirill: Ukraine is paying for its Gay Pride

March 7, 2022
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We know that Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow, doesn't recognise the His Beatitude Epiphanius of Kyiv and All Ukraine, and that he wants the schismatic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine to…

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Ukraine: no grave is large enough to contain the spirit of freedom

March 3, 2022
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President Putin is turning cities to rubble, making life unlivable, and bombing civilians to kingdom come. The sacred Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial to the 33,000 Ukrainian Jews who were summarily…

Archbishop says Putin is the ‘Antichrist’, building the ‘Third Rome’

February 28, 2022
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President Putin is not mad. Unless, that is, all those who believe their political mission to be a divine vocation are mad. He may be grievously misguided and perversely in…

RIP Sr Catherine Wybourne, aka Digitalnun

February 24, 2022
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The most fragrant and blessed Christian presence on social media has entered into paradise. Our heads are bowed; a thousand teardrops mingle with the rain, and the world is a…

Ukraine’s freedom is the price of Europe’s peace

February 23, 2022
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"Who in the Lord's name does Putin think gives him a right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbours?" asked President Biden yesterday, with all…

‘Legal but harmful’: making social media the arbiter of gospel truth

February 21, 2022
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WARNING: This blog post is legal but harmful (potentially). If you proceed, there is a significant risk that the nature of the content might cause adverse psychological impact on an…

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Damned by a pronoun: priest invalidates baptism of hundreds by changing one word

February 16, 2022
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The rite of baptism in the Roman Catholic Church is clear: the priest must say, "I baptise you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of…

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Welby: “Why is it so much agony to remove a memorial to slavery?”

February 14, 2022
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This was the question posed by the Archbishop of Canterbury last week, in the context of the campaign to remove the memorial plaque to 17th-century courtier and philanthropist Tobias Rustat…

Christ Church’s magic £millions make the Dean’s safeguarding risk disappear

February 9, 2022
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It is widely reported that the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Very Rev'd Professor Martyn Percy, has agreed a mediated settlement with the Governing Body of the College, and…

What’s wrong with appointing a Bishop for Brexit?

February 7, 2022
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There's a move afoot to create a Cabinet of Bishops to shadow government departments, with the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding like a Prime Minister Spiritual, and those around him holding…