In its new guidelines, the Italian Bishops’ Conference says that seminary applicants should undergo “adequate ...

CLIMATE protesters defaced Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey temporarily on Monday, drawing attention to last ...

CHURCH buildings and places of worship have been burned to the ground in the fast-moving wildfires sweeping across parts of California. Among them is St Mark’s Episcopal Church, in Altadena, which was ...

CHARITIES will suffer the most as a consequence of the increase in employers’ National Insurance contribution, the House of Lords has been told. During the Second Reading, on Monday, of the National ...

10 Bishop tells porkies about viper he captured before start of mass — not the holiest of utterances! (11) ...

THE Most Revd Justin Welby was, one episcopal colleague has suggested, “our most efficient Archbishop since Fisher”. Against a backdrop of complaints about increased managerialism in the Church of ...

WE WOULD draw special attention to the account we print this week of the ordination of six African priests in Bloemfontein Cathedral. With the natives was one white priest, Brother Felix, who was ...

On the podcast this week, Sarah Meyrick introduces an exciting new era for the Church Times, including fresh content and contributors, and the return to a news front-page, reflecting our proud ...

READERS will spot a few changes in the Church Times this week. You’ll notice that news has returned to the front page, reflecting our proud heritage as an independent newspaper. We’re providing a ...

This week’s selection: praying with the saints; the Queer community and the Church; and the Psalms in an age of distraction “Popular author and illustrator Gregory Cameron offers 31 daily prayers from ...

AYLSHAM Parish Church, in Norfolk, continued its tradition of providing a Christmas Day lunch in the town hall for anyone who might otherwise have spent the day alone, or found it a difficult day. The ...

CHRISTIANS are being forced to worship in secret in parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia, as persecution of those who are not members of the Moscow-affiliated Orthodox Church intensifies, Release ...