New Diocesan Mothers’ Union President Commissioned; Clergy sexual abuse raised as issue at UN meeting; Motherhood, the career that dare not speak its name; Online bullying victims suffering in silence
Global data upend usual picture of Christianity trends; As post-disaster project ends, Japan considers the future; Anglican mission agency leaders recommit to collaboration; Egypt forms first ever Council of Churches
Savitri Hensman, writing in the Guardian, says Archbishop Justin Welby can follow up his appreciation for faithful gay relationships with "practical measures, he could strengthen the Church of England's credibility in sharing the good news of God's love for all."
Teaching the mystery
Bishop of Cork on church and state issues; New Secretary General for the Mission to Seafarers; Ballybeen GB girl featured on ‘Story of a Lifetime’; ICC 90th Annual Meeting; Dean of Belfast visits Focolare movement in Rome
Senior Church of England bishop calls for gay union blessing services; Archbishop Welby faces boycott by Anglican leaders over plans to allow gay clergy to become bishop; Finnish Academic and English Bishop to lead Anglican-Lutheran Society; Wells & Wells Will Haunt Archbishop
The Right Reverend Paul Colton - Ours is a relatively young democracy. I cannot help but feeling – especially as I witness, and am personally engaged, in Church-State dialogue, in the field of education especially, in the care of the elderly, and in the voluntary charitable sector; and as we all take part in on-going vigorous debate about all sorts of issues, including the proposed abortion legislation, marriage equality rights, and the affording of protection to Lesbian and Gay people in a religious workplace, to name some examples – I cannot help but feeling that we have some major Church-State growing-up and disentangling to do.
Teaching the mystery
Blessington Children Celebrate Calcutta School Project; St Patrick in focus; Open Events at Corrymeela Ballycastle; New Irish Youth workshops; ”Time and Temperance in Conflict and Peace” - TCD lecture
Thousands visit historic churches and cathedrals; Scottish Episcopal bishop on the “Bedroom Tax”; Pope Francis’ Task - C of E Bishop
Tomorrow Archbishop Justin Welby will be enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury. Roman Catholics aren’t the only ones looking for signs and signals that indicate where the church is going next. While we didn't look for white smoke, we Anglicans have just gone through our own somewhat arcane process of changing spiritual leaders.
The Lavish Love of the Prodigal Father
Rembrandt - Master Painter and Storyteller
Key role at enthronement of Archbishop of Canterbury; Dublin Faith in Action; ‘Spiritual Capital’ series continues in TCD; Kilbroney Adventure Camp; Bridge to Life’ outreach at Lambeg
RSCM Sunday 2013, Haydn Quartet; Soundboard seeks; Northern Ireland Young Musician of the Year 2013; Concert - Vivaldi’s Concerto in D; New UK Christian and gospel album chart
Ordinary people are doing extraordinary things in the name of Mothers’ Union both at home and abroad, Diocesan President Joy Gordon stated in her address in Whitechurch on Mothering Sunday.
Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk of the Benedictine Order, is known for his pioneering work in interfaith dialogue and his ground-breaking leadership popularizing the spiritual practice of gratefulness.
There Are No Ordinary People - CS Lewis
St Patrick’s Day in Down and Dublin; Dublin welcome for Pope Francis; Seafarers Mission commissioned to write Titanic II prayer; Media review
Women's Indaba success will mean similar gatherings across Africa, USA; One in five women is childless by age of 45; Internet porn is leading children on an ‘unstoppable march into a moral wasteland’; The end of childhood: 12; Bereaved Parent Support Day
In 146 pages and 21 easily digestible chapters, Bishop David Evans recounts journeys he undertook as a worker among students in Argentina, then Bishop of Peru and finally General Secretary of the South American Missionary Society.
No Greater Love Than This
"In company with millions of men and women throughout the world of different Christian traditions to his own, I assure the new Pope of our prayers as he begins his new ministry" - said the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland on the election of Pope Francis.
The new Pope has reportedly said the Church universal needs Anglicans and that the Ordinariate is "quite unnecessary". In a note released after the election of the first ever pontiff from Latin America, the Anglican Bishop of Argentina and former Primate of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone, the Rt Revd Greg Venables said Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was "an inspired choice".
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion have welcomed the appointment of the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
Appointment of C of I cleric to leading US Seminary; Chinese church leaders to visit Dublin
MU Cork Diocesan Festival; Clogher MU activities; Media review - Plaque unveiled for suffragette Isabella Tod; Mother launches range of Down Syndrome dolls
Matthew Fox on how Hildegard of Bingen advises us to recover a sense of the sacred in all things.
Christ Calls Us Deeper Still.
Trinity Orchestra; St Patrick's Weekend; Church History Society to meet in Armagh; Church delegation on European concerns; Media review