Vivienne Faull

A female Bishop of London “to make a statement”?

January 4, 2017
Archbishop Cranmer
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The Rt Rev'd Dr Richard Chartres retires as Bishop of London in February (he will be greatly missed - 'Peer Now!'), and according to the Times (..hold loosely..): Bishop Chartres abstained from appointing women priests despite appearing to support the…

Peace on earth and good will to all men – except the sacked bell-ringers of York Minster

December 18, 2016
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"The bells! The bells!" cried Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bell-ringer of Notre-Dame de Paris in Victor Hugo's quasi-fictional novel. He might have been sounding a prophetic child-safeguarding warning to the Church…