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1 day ago · Tudor’s reappointment as area dean comes back to haunt Archbishop of York. A PRIEST accused of child sexual abuse, who had paid a settlement to one of his alleged victims, was reappointed twice as an area dean in the diocese of Chelmsford, the BBC reported on Sunday, leading to renewed pressure on the Archbishop of York, who was the diocesan Bishop at …
Bishops speak of the hope of Christmas in a troubled world
15 hours ago · The Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines, says in a message to be broadcast on Christmas Day that “we’re doing something deeply subversive at Christmas — subverting the expectations of what power looks like, of how God might be expected to behave. “And I hope that this Christmas we will rediscover, perhaps look for it in a different way, but rediscover the presence of God, not in ...
Church is facing ‘existential crisis’ over safeguarding, says Bishop …
Dec 10, 2024 · THE Church of England is facing “one of the biggest existential crises . . . since the Reformation”, in the wake of the Makin Review into abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Jonathan Gibbs, said on Tuesday.. Speaking after voting in favour of a diocesan synod motion that expressed no confidence in the Archbishops’ Council’s oversight of safeguarding (News, 10 ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Bishop of Warrington ‘away from diocese’ THE Suffragan Bishop of Warrington, in the diocese of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Beverley Mason, is currently “away from the diocese”, clergy were informed at last week’s chrism eucharist.A statement was read out, which said that “with the permission of the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of …
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Dec 16, 2024 · The Church Times. Our new Safeguarding Director will lead, and build on, our safeguarding infrastructure, champion our commitment to the highest standards of safeguarding practice, and help us ensure that we are able to build on our commitment for a truly positive safeguarding culture in every corner of the diocese.
New churches are dropping the word ‘church’, report finds
Aug 13, 2024 · DIOCESES have jettisoned the use of the word “church” in describing the “new things” being established in their parishes, raising questions about what theology is being applied in the Church of England, an independent report says.. New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England reports that, in the past ten ...
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Jun 16, 2017 · Lord Harries’s British-values Bill progresses unamended. A BILL to extend the “British values” taught in schools to freedom of religion and respect for the environment, proposed by the former Bishop of Oxford Lord Harries, will now move to its Third Reading in the House of Lords, after no amendments were tabled.In the introduction to the Second Reading of his Education (Values of British ...
‘Prolific, brutal and horrific’: Makin report calls out the Smyth …
Aug 13, 2018 · THE “prolific, brutal and horrific” abuse perpetrated by John Smyth, a Reader in the Church of England, was covered up by “powerful evangelical clergy”, the long-awaited Makin review has concluded. The “Independent lessons learning review” by Keith Makin, originally due to be published five years ago, lists the Archbishop of Canterbury as among those who failed to …
‘In church-going terms, we have failed’ - The Church Times
Nov 8, 2024 · IT WAS one of the Church of England’s “South Bank Religion” sensations of the 1960s. In 1965, The Observer published an article by the Rector of Woolwich, the Revd Nick Stacey, headlined “A Mission’s Failure: The story of one church in pagan Britain”. Stacey, a former Olympic sprinter, had set himself the target of …