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Jan 15, 2025 | 
anglican.ink | Gavin Ashenden
The news that an ancient and beautiful cathedral in Peterborough has announced that it may go brokeand have to close because it can no longer pay its bills has shocked the Anglican world. It came shortly after the day that Justin Welby’s formal resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury took effect.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Gavin Ashenden
The news that an ancient and beautiful cathedral in Peterborough has announced that it may go broke and have to close because it could no longer pay its bills has shocked the Anglican world. It came shortly after the day that Justin Welby’s formal resignation as Archbishop of Canterbury took effect.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Gavin Ashenden
By Gavin Ashenden, The Stream, January 13, 2025Gavin Ashenden is associate editor of the Catholic Herald. Formerly a priest of the Church of England, and subsequently a continuing Anglican bishop, he was appointed Chaplain to the Queen from 2008 until his resignation in 2017. One of the greatest scandals since the second World War is currently unfolding in the United Kingdom: the systematic rape of some 250,000 working-class, mostly white girls at the hands of Muslim Pakistani gangs.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
anglican.ink | Gavin Ashenden
Monday 6 January marked the last working day of Justin Welby as Archbishop Canterbury. His resignation was forced on him after his failure to act competently in the oversight of a devastating sexual abuse scandal. But it would be unfair to take that single act of incompetence and use it as a lens to judge his entire performance as Archbishop. Tragic though the end of his tenure was, we need to look at the other elements of the way he held office in order to assess it fairly.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
christiantoday.com | Gavin Ashenden
Monday 6 January marked the last working day of Justin Welby as Archbishop Canterbury. His resignation was forced on him after his failure to act competently in the oversight of a devastating sexual abuse scandal. But it would be unfair to take that single act of incompetence and use it as a lens to judge his entire performance as Archbishop. Tragic though the end of his tenure was, we need to look at the other elements of the way he held office in order to assess it fairly.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Gavin Ashenden
Poets sometimes have as great a capacity to help us with Christmas as the theologians; for Christmas is a time of deep and complex beauty. Part of the complexity is best caught by the paradoxes that we encounter within it, and at times of mystery it is often the poets who interpret paradox best. Both in the ideas behind Christmas and the way we celebrate it, we are confronted by both paradoxes; but the poets can also help us with the practicalities of the way in which we approach the celebration.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Gavin Ashenden
On Sunday, Notre Dame de Paris will be re-opened, re-ordered after the inferno that overcame her. As darkness fell over Paris on 15 April 2019, flames were seen in the sky above the roof of what might be called the most famous building and cathedral in France, devouring a masterpiece of sanity and beauty.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Gavin Ashenden
Deacon Keith Fournier: Advent Calls Us to Repentance and a Deeper Relationship With Jesus As We Prepare for His Coming By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald, November 30, 2024(On November 29th) a majority of MPs at Westminster voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which is to say that the UK Parliament has now approved the principle of assisted suicide – death at the hands of the state.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Gavin Ashenden
Yesterday a majority of MPs at Westminster voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which is to say that the UK Parliament has now approved the principle of assisted suicide – death at the hands of the state. There is a small window of hope that it will be defeated the next time around, but in reality a momentum has built up that will be very hard to resist. About thirty other jurisdictions in the world have legalised assisted suicide.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Gavin Ashenden
Francis Meets With Climate Change Activist Celeste Saulo from The World Meteorological Organization By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald, November 27, 2024In some circles, Catholic and otherwise, exorcists are the new celebrities. You may have heard of Fr Gabriel Amorth, often known as the exorcist to the Vatican, who famously claimed there were more demons per square metre resident there than anywhere else on earth.
