The signatories — which include at least one member of safeguarding staff from 90 per cent of dioceses — write that they are ...

In response to the Makin report, Dr Makgoba commissioned an independent panel to review, at speed, whether he and his diocese ...

THAT 14 million people in the UK, including more than four million children, are living in poverty is a “wearily familiar” ...

A COALITION of 20 charities is lobbying the Government to introduce a debt-cancellation scheme for lower-income countries in the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. In a letter published this week, ...

A BOWL made from a churchyard yew tree by a local woodturner has been presented to Pope Francis by the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, during his ecumenical pilgrimage to Rome earlier ...

AN ADVOCATE for vulnerable women, Lianne Kirkman, is to spend ten nights in a row sleeping rough, to highlight issues of women’s safety and to raise money for a hub where women can meet, have access ...

Madeleine Davies speaks to one of the two women who have made allegations against the Bishop of Liverpool, and explores wider concerns about the Church’s processes for responding to such reports A ...

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9 February, Proper 1: Isaiah 6.1-8 (9-end); Psalm 138; 1 Corinthians 15.1-11; Luke 5.1-11 IN THIS Gospel, Simon responds to Jesus as he does, not because of a realisation at that moment (15.8), but ...

THE Bishop of Liverpool, Dr John Perumbalath, has resigned with immediate effect. He wrote to the clergy of the diocese on Thursday morning that, having sought permission from the King, he had taken ...

All Shall Be Well: Visions of salvation with Julian of Norwich by Emma Pennington (BRF, £12.99 (£11.69); 978-1-80039-206-9). “Through revelations ten to sixteen of her Revelations of Divine Love, ...

SENIOR leaders in the diocese of Liverpool said on Wednesday that the Bishop of Liverpool, Dr John Perumbalath, should step aside from all ministry in the diocese. In a statement sent to the ...