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Peter, Paul and women bishops Free

The Church of England is groping towards a harmonious solution of its internal crisis over the ordination of women bishops, but with no guarantee that such a solution exists. The crisis reveals much about the nature of Anglicanism itself. The Anglican ...

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Speeches from this week's conference in Rome

This week in Rome bishops and religious superiors met at the first Vatican-backed symposium devoted to forging a global response to the crisis of clerical sexual abuse that has disgraced ...

Archbishop voices 'shame and sorrow' after priest's abuse trial
Longley to visit parishes 'damaged' by Walsh

Today, Tuesday 7 February, Bede Walsh, who served as a Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, has been convicted by a jury, following a 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent ...

Features

It's good to talk Free Theo Hobson For most global Anglicans all roads lead to Canterbury next week as the thinly woven community gathers for the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference. Will it witness a traumatic rift, or will it be where the Communion can debate the issues - and listen?...	High price for justiceConor Gearty Case by case, the rule of open justice has been put aside with many defendants in Britain facing trial without being able to see the faces nor know the names of hostile witnesses. Now in a society made anxious by terrorism, the unthinkable could happen: the state may decide to endorse anonymity...
A tale of two charismsBrendan Byrne If peter represents the unity and tradition of the Church, and Paul its missionary outreach, then history shows how the two impulses have sometimes pulled against each other. But the Catholic reappraisal of Paul we see today shows how creative is the tension in that relationship...	Radicals, reaction and evolutionDavid Wilbourne Controversy is likely to dog the forthcoming Lambeth Conference. It was ever thus - from day one in 1867 when a reluctant Archbishop of Canterbury called Anglicans together from around the then British Empire following one of the Church's most theologically turbulent 10 years...

Synod: agonies of a broad churchVictoria Combe Despite opposition from Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals, the Church of England has moved closer to consecrating women bishops, leading to a possible influx of up to 500 Anglican clergy to Rome and a deepening ecumenical chill between the two Churches...	Vested in ChristPaula Bailey It is not often that a parish has the opportunity to journey alongside a man as he approaches ordination to the priesthood. When the opportunity arises, it should be seized, as it is a time when everyone's vocation can be examined and reaffirmed...
The Wright stuffRick Jones The new director of the BBC Proms, Roger Wright, tells Rick Jones what lies behind this year's 'world's greatest musical festival', which includes works by the organist, composer and devout Catholic Olivier Messiaen...	When pain is powerMichael Hirst Israelis and Palestinians are only too well aware of their differences, but a new forum based in Britain is attempting to build dialogue based on what they have in common. And the first thing they have in common is grief...
Food of sublime realitiesDaniel McCarthy In the Church the call to sanctity is universal. This is because Christ unites us to himself. In the Eucharist, Daniel McCarthy explains, he does not take on our form when we receive his body, but we become like him...	'What we will see is the Holy Father, under a different sky'Julia Willis By the time this article goes to print, our little group of pilgrims from Oxford and Soho will have shopped in Singapore, camped in the outback and watched the sun rise and set over Ayers Rock...
Smoke and gooseberriesN. O'Phile

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Tim Hames

'The 18-dish menu compounded the sense that the spirit of Marie Antoinette lives on'

Laurence Freeman

'Over ritual tea, they would retell the stories that renewed the community'

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Reading David Jones
Thomas Dilworth

"Bugger it, I can do better than that!" It was with these hearty words that, according to a former editor of The Tablet Tom Burns, David Jones put down his copy ...

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