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Report commissioned by the Vatican calls for action to tackle international debt

5 days ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore

GOVERNMENTS and international institutions could prevent multiple future crises by restructuring or forgiving the debts of developing countries, according to a report commissioned by the late Pope Francis for the Roman Catholic Church’s current Jubilee Year.
Sandford St Martin Awards celebrate voices found in midst of ‘turbulence’

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Ed Thornton

A DOCUMENTARY about young anti-abortion activists was among the programmes recognised at the Sandford St Martin Awards on Tuesday evening. The awards, which were presented at a ceremony in Lambeth Palace, celebrate excellence in broadcasting about religion, ethics, and spirituality. The Trust said that this year’s accolades featured people “finding their voice, connection and identity even while surrounded by political, economic or social turbulence”.
Traditionalists press Pope Leo to lift restrictions on Latin mass

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Jonathan Luxmoore

CONSERVATIVE Roman Catholics have called on Pope Leo XIV to relax current restrictions on the traditional Latin mass, claiming that its wider use will stimulate a Church revival. “Many vocations are coming today from places where the traditional liturgy and faith are maintained — I hope Pope Leo will recognise this,” the Rt Revd Athanasius Schneider, a leading conservative spokesman and auxiliary bishop from Kazakhstan, said. “Our Church needs unity and a capacity to grow in missionary zeal.
Lessons-learnt review exposes Church’s poor handling of ‘horrendous abuse’ disclosures by three sisters

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

THE Archbishop of York is to issue a formal apology to three sisters who, when they were children, were subject to “horrendous abuse” in a northern diocese, a spokesperson for Church House confirmed this week. On Tuesday, the BBC reported on the case of Jenny, Wendy, and Christina Read, who said that they were “frequently” abused by their father, a male curate, and a female churchwarden in “sadistic rituals” at night within a church in the north-east of England.
Bishop of Manchester rejects link between grooming gangs and race

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Hattie Williams

THE predatory behaviour behind grooming gangs is “not a pattern of offending confined to any particular ethnic, cultural, or religious group”, the Bishop of Manchester, Dr David Walker, said this week — contrary to the views of the independent auditor of these crimes in England and Wales. He was speaking on Monday, the day that the Government announced a new national inquiry on grooming gangs in response to Baroness Casey’s audit of group-based child sexual exploitation.
New C of E booklet invites the faithful to explore the Nicene Creed

1 week ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Ed Thornton

A NEW booklet inviting churches, small groups, and individuals “to engage prayerfully with each phrase” of the Nicene Creed is now available. We Believe: Exploring the Nicene Creed, is published today by Church House Publishing, to mark the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, whose deliberations ultimately led to the adoption of the Nicene Creed. The Creed was expanded amended to its present form at the First Council of Constantinople, in 381.
MPs amend Leadbeater Bill in adjourned debate

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin

THE debate on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will continue on 20 June, after further parliamentary time was devoted to the proposed legislation on Friday. Clauses that prohibited doctors from raising the topic of assisted dying with the under-18s, and banned advertisements for assisted-dying services, were added to the Bill during Friday’s debate.
Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: This New World lacks one vital component

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Andrew Brown

AN INTERESTING example of the blindness of the secular press: The New European has relaunched itself as The New World. It is the voice of the outrage felt by the decent liberal middle classes who believed until the Brexit referendum that they ran the country. Although The New European started in the summer of 2016 as an angry pop-up that was meant to last for only four weeks, it has kept going as a weekly, now profitable, and with 35,000 paying readers.
Traditional Catholic parish in Swindon see fruits of £250,000 grant from Church Commissioners

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Madeleine Davies

SIR John Betjeman once remarked of St Mark’s, Swindon, that “its achievement lay in catholicising a parish, not merely a congregation”. Eighty years after Benjamin Britten’s Festival Te Deum was performed in the church, marking its centenary, the late Poet Laureate’s accolade has fresh impetus with the help of a £250,000 innovation grant from the Church Commissioners.
MPs quiz Synod legal adviser about new Clergy Conduct Measure

2 weeks ago | churchtimes.co.uk | Francis Martin

THE Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament is taking time to consider whether the new Clergy Conduct Measure (CCM) is “expedient”, after a session on Tuesday in which its members asked questions of one of the lawyers in charge of drafting the Measure. The CCM received final approval from the General Synod in February (News, 14 February) and is due to replace the Clergy Discipline Measure.