Saturday, 30 January 2016

The Book of St Richard, Chapter 24

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Continued from Chapter 23 1. And it came to pass that Richard was invited to the prestigious Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticis...
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Friday, 29 January 2016

Woman believes she is a bishop

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Psychologists are struggling to cope with a wave of "identification" crises. First we saw the case of Bruce Jenner, fathering six ...
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Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Pope seeks Catholic forgiveness for persecution

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After apologising to the Protestant churches for the persecution they suffered during the Reformation - and most of us didn't even know ...
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Monday, 25 January 2016

Pope Francis to visit Oxford to celebrate atheism

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October 2nd 2016 is the 10th anniversary of the publication of Richard Dawkins's learned theological tome The God Delusion , and, in a s...
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Sunday, 24 January 2016

The Year of Mercy - your questions answered

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Well, the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy is going swimmingly, but some people have sent us questions about it, so Uncle Eccles will see what...
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Saturday, 23 January 2016

Bearding the Muslim in his lair

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The suggestion by Richard Chartres, Anglican bishop of London, that growing beards can help vicars reach out to Muslims has been eagerly ta...
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Friday, 22 January 2016

Pope introduces hair-washing rite for women

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Pope Francis has shocked traditionalists with this week's twenth-ninth change to Catholic teaching and practice - introducing the rite o...
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Thursday, 21 January 2016

Government plans to regulate Sunday schools

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The Department of Education is expanding its plans to register and inspect Sunday schools using OFCHURCH, the government office that already...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2016

School report on Jorge Bergoglio

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We have been sent a school report for a boy called Jorge Bergoglio who attended St Evita's Academy, Buenos Aires, in around 1947. We do...
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Sunday, 17 January 2016

Catholic thanksgiving prayers for the Reformation

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Following the issue of joint Catholic-Lutheran prayers of thanksgiving for the Reformation , we are pleased to publish further prayers alon...
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Saturday, 16 January 2016

God apologises for causing hurt and pain to the LBGT community

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Following endless protests, the Lord God Almighty has apologised to the LBGT community for His "insensitive" behaviour to them ove...
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Friday, 15 January 2016

Are there really two popes?

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In the Catholic Herald Damian Thompson has written an interesting piece about the relations between Popes Francis and Benedict. However, ...
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Wednesday, 13 January 2016

It's Bowie-mania in the Vatican!

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I don't really know much about the late David Robert Jones, also known as David Bowie, although I once nearly met him (I'm fairly su...
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Saturday, 9 January 2016

Primate gathering in Canterbury

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Over now to the Anglican Communion, where the news is that Canterbury will be hosting the long-awaited gathering of primates . Justin Welby...
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Friday, 1 January 2016

Top of the Christians

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The Anglican Cranmer blog has published its new list of democratically-elected top UK Christians, and the winner is Nissar Hussain, the f...
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