News

Some recent news and comment - without (much) further comment from me....

Ancient Briton reports and comments on the vacancy process in the See of Monmouth following Bishop Dominic Walker's retirement yesterday .... Christendom awaits with baited breath!
"....Do they, fasting, trembling, bleeding,
Wait the news from this our city?...."

Dr Colin Podmore, speaking at Nashotah House [here] appeals for generosity all round as the Church of England gears itself up for yet another attempt on the life of  Anglicanism's remaining claims to apostolic succession... 

Ahead of Friday's York Synod, John Bingham at The Telegraph reports on the quiet shelving by officials of a contentious debate on the registration/ celebration of civil unions in C of E churches - of course: one thing at a time or someone could notice the water heating up ...

Surely something everyone with an interest in 'authentic' liturgy hopes cannot be true: Damian Thompson repeats the recent rumours about Archbishop Piero Marini.

And for those old enough and yet young enough to question the whole ghastly baby-boomer cult of youth / Rolling Stones / Glastonbury obsession, some amusing front page photos from, of all newspapers, the Daily Mail. And I thought zombies were a Hollywood invention.....  Although, if all the reports over the years are true they are doing well to look this good - what the portraits in the attic must look like, on the other hand.... 
Uncharitable...? In view of the damage inflicted on subsequent generations by such 'cultural icons,' not so very ....

Lastly, can we all - please -  stop overusing the word 'governance' - it was, not all that long ago, considered to be archaic; now, in most cases, it's just pretentious...