Pope Francis on Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima by calling for peace and repeating that not only the use of atomic weapons but their mere possession is immoral.
Read more By Joan Frawley Desmond | SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This summer, as another surge of COVID-19 cases swept through California, Mary Harrell took stock of the Golden State’s public-health guidelines for…
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Two online three day zoominars for theological educators in South Asia and Africa in July set out the possibilities and challenges for theological education for the immediate and medium term future. These workshops in South Asia and in Africa were facilitated and organised by GILD team (Global Institute for Leadership Development), led by Dr Prasad […]
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Anglican churches are allowed to reopen for communal worship under certain conditions, with the final decision left with the PCC. Government guidance says that gatherings of more than 30 people are now allowed for acts of communal worship in churches, synagogues, mosques, temples and meeting rooms in England. Everyone attending the service should stick to […]
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by Giles Fraser, UnHerd: The ancient institution has been asset-stripped by an expanding bureaucracy of management-speak types. On the ground, many of us parish clergy are getting increasingly cheesed off. In The Church Times this week there is yet another advertisement for a non-parish job loaded full of vacuous HR devised buzzwords. Sheffield Diocese are looking for […]
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Read morePope Francis named six women to the high-level group that oversees the Vatican’s finances Aug. 6, in what may represent the most senior appointments yet of women among the Catholic Church’s exclusively male leadership structure.
Read more By Catholic News Agency | VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has accepted the early resignation of Bishop John LeVoir, who has led the Minnesota diocese of New Ulm since 2008, and took a leave from his…
By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA | VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s doctrinal office issued Thursday a clarification on the sacrament of baptism, stating changes to the formula to emphasize community…
By Father Raymond J. de Souza | Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The cities hit by the only wartime deployment of the atomic bomb have stood ever since those fateful days — Aug. 6, 1945, for…
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Letter to The Telegraph: SIR – I do not always share the views of Giles Fraser (Comment, August 3), but his article on the future of the Church of England parochial system makes many points that which the Church would do well to take on board. It is ironic that Chelmsford diocese has announced it […]
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