Live from the chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge with the College Choir and St John's Sinfonia at 3.30pm
Ministry of Healing Training; Armagh Bicentenary Flower Festival; New law to clear up paternity confusion; Church complaints on seal of Confession 'a diversion’; Irish group protests Vatican move to silence dissident priests; Fr D'Arcy is victim of mafioso treatment by Vatican bullyboys; "Silencing" our way out of trouble
Belfast born Cardinal: PM tax stance 'immoral'; UK's richest 'getting wealthier’; Royal hopes and fears laid bare in papers and prayer books display; Gay marriage: Pope's representatives calls for Catholic alliance with Muslim and Jewish groups; Iain Duncan Smith defies Catholic Church to back marriage for gay couples; School gay marriage stance probed; EU aid 'going to richer nations’; Church statues covered in knit-wear
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Church Leaders meet Sinn Féin to discuss Welfare Reform; Vatican Radio interview with Archbishop Jackson; ’Mums in May’ Inaugural Tea Party; Vatican embassy may re-open within two years; Vatican censures Fr Brian D'Arcy
Evangelicals plan parallel jurisdiction for the Church of England; Archbishopric of Canterbury: Chair of Crown Nominations Commission appointed; Archbishop gives thanks for Queen who does God; New look for Fresh Expressions mission course; Sydney Archbishop Gives Ringing Endorsement of Gospel to Anglican Leaders at London conference; We should elect our chair, say Primates; Dean’s wife renews musical attack on VAT
Select soloists for New Ross ‘Messiah’; Lunchtime Concert at St Ann’s Dawson Street; High note as Meath soprano joins the Vienna Boys' Choir; WIT Youth Choir; France hears the gospel, or at least the music; Dean’s wife renews musical attack on VAT
Prayer Book in Irish presented to Prince Charles; The Damaged Doctor - Violence and Doctor Who lecture; Vatican censures Fr Brian D'Arcy; New Irish legislation seeks to protect child sex victims; Priests must report child abuse confessions or face jail; Priests: We won’t break seal of confession to report sex abuse; Families face jail for failing to report sex abuse; Rights groups back prosecution plan; RC Archbishop ‘unable’ to tell child advocate of priest’s past; Welfare reform to hit NI children; Vulnerable families 'need protection' from spending cuts; Future of St Patrick's centre still uncertain; Irish education cutbacks: Over 200 primary schools win reprieve and won’t lose a teacher
Summary of current issues and research - Welfare reform to hit NI children; How drugs change my child's life; Schoolboy accuses classmates of antisemitic assault; Schoolboy accuses classmates of antisemitic assault; Northern Ireland's nursery school policy has 'created misery and chaos for thousands of families’; Two thirds of schoolchildren 'not getting enough sleep’; Couples face child benefit quiz; Voluntary sector cannot plug gaps; Families face jail for failing to report sex abuse; Teenage plus: Adolescence now lasts until the age of 24; Britain has world’s third highest proportion of sexually active teens
It's church every day for The Queen during Welsh tour; Sentumu defends religious education; Britain has world’s third highest proportion of sexually active teens; Church of Scotland concerns over uncertain future for asylum seekers; Archbishop: Christian UK can show leadership to Christian world; Are evangelical Christians on another planet?; Catholic schools face ‘indoctrination’ claims over gay marriage; Couples face child benefit quiz; George Osborne preparing u-turn on church tax; Public 'disengaged from politics'
Irish School of Ecumenics Belfast Lecture; Christian Aid & Trócaire Concert in Limerick; Archbishop of Dublin Launches ‘The Friars in Ireland 1224–1540’; Historians to revisit 1922 massacre of Protestants; Child advocate quits parish after discovery of 'restricted' priest; Fornication views of TD personal, says Kenny; Parents stage Dáil protest over care payment cuts; Web of gambling addiction
Courage founder: "Gay cure" not possible ; The Belfast based man who believes he can help gay people turn straight ; Gay clergy banned in Australia; Was Jesus gay? Probably - by Paul Oestreicher; 'The Vatican has told them to get rid of me' ; Welsh Vicar quits Church over homophobia; Wrestling with the Church
Rededication service at historic border church; Glynn church plaques to be dedicated to RUC and UDR; Holywood Parish explores movement in worship; Vacancy for a Youth Worker; Vacancy for Part–time Financial Administrator; Statement due on St Pat's Centre; Review of teacher training to back 'institutes of education’; Training teachers the Catholic way; Why the school patronage report is doomed to fail; Priest in eye of gay porn images storm goes on leave
More analyses of Sentamu and the vacancy at Canterbury; GAFCON proposes to reorganise the Anglican Communion; Archbishop of Canterbury to lose worldwide Anglican role under plans; News from the Church in Wales' Governing Body meeting; VAT lobby on alterations; Executive remuneration: The charity perspective
Tensions and bombings in Sudan; Lodon rally for Pakistani Christian prisoner; Assisi call for greater inter-faith dialogue; US nuns dismiss Vatican criticism; Report points to decline in belief; Sixteen Amish deny hair attacks
Limerick recital; Classical Music in Delgany; Getty Tour; Aled Jones and The Unthanks added to cathedrals music programme; Video - Music as mission: A choral journey with John Rutter; From Saturday runs to Olympiad stage;; Sinead O'Connor: Music's 'Uncooperative' Celebrity
Christian Aid Walk for Water; Service for those with Dementia; Weaving a rainbow of prayer; Zion Parish Dinner; Classical Music in Delgany; Irish rhino-horn gang linked to theft of saint's heart; Remembering Frederick MacNeice, man of faith and paragon of peace; 2000 sign up for Ossory's mobile messages; Church wants apology by D'Arcy; Catholic Church escapes controversial new Irish household charge
Archbishop of York to be considered for Canterbury; Leaders of a dissident Anglican movement meet in UK; Statement on report from Joint Committee on the Government’s Draft House of Lords Reform Bill; Archbishop of Canterbury pulled out of Cambridge college job over gay cleric row; Royalty's holy treasures unveiled in new exhibition; Church plays down racism claim
Gilmore warns over sectarianism; Limerick Mother's Union 125th Anniversary Showcase; Glendalough Institution; Forgotten Refugees - remembered in Newtownabbey; Limerick recital; We Are Church claims women priests are celebrating mass in Ireland; Volunteer scheme is finding housing solutions for Ireland; 'Indecent images' priest cleared; Paedophile former priest guilty; David Park: a life in books; Group to hold vigil against Vatican's silencing of liberal priests; Liberal jolt has positive role to play in church
Archbishop of York victim of 'naked racism', claims ally; Senior clergy back gay marriage; London mayoral candidates affirm desire to work with churches; Scotlands young people learn about global citizenship; MPs call for better porn blocks; On a new demand-free service; A One Nation Defence of the Church of England
Church opposition to gay marriage a 'disaster', says senior C of E bishop; Senior clergy back gay marriage ; Archbishop supports gay 'welcome’; Grassroots Tories have had enough of gay marriage; Tory think tank criticises gay marriage plans; Scotland’s imams oppose gay marriage
Archbishop of York reflects on 'Christian Citizenship Today’in Belfast; Bishop Williams tribute to the Revd Dr Ray Davey; Evangelicals in conference; Kilmore anniversary; Special services and events tomorrow; Dublin Growth and Development Forum; Connor Vision Strategy process continues.
The Church of England faithful left to fend for themselves; Archbishop Of York Calls For All Children In Poverty To Get Free School Meals; Vicar-elect of St. Martin-in-the-Fields "stretched" and "humbled”; Southwark Evangelicals set up alternative quota; Church is open for beer worshippers; Scotland’s imams oppose gay marriage.
Ireland’s abortion bill defeated; TD: ‘Fornication most likely cause of unwanted pregnancies’; System 'ignores and stigmatises' women who travel for abortion; Pro-choice groups call for new abortion legislation; Government “cannot accept” current version of proposed abortion law; Government to vote against more liberal law on abortion; Legislating for abortion.
New Kenyan Bishop to address CMS Ireland AGM; Eucharistic Congress Pilgrim Walk Launch at St Ann’s; Youth Worker appointed to Derry and Raphoe; Death of Canon Robert Rudd; Bilingual Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral; Holy Communion in Irish at Christ Church Cathedral; ICC temporary post; Safeguarding Trust (RI) newsletter; Lenten Lunches raise appetising €7750 for Drogheda Homeless Aid; Irish church at the crossroads: reform or bust; BNP leader lambasted on Ulster race claims; Charities say Irish Social Welfare Bill will push one-parent families into poverty; More top-grade UK university places
Church of Scotland outlines vision for a moral economy; Government boost for Christian Aid Week; Work together to tackle poverty, says Church Urban Fund; Executive pay must be reined in, say Church charity groups; Archbishop of York: tackling poverty; Prayers for injured paratroopers on charity trek; Cathedral keepsake for boy who got fingers stuck in donation box; Aled Jones and The Unthanks added to cathedrals music programme; Ex-priest arrested in abuse probe; More top-grade university places
There is discord in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, tension between priests who live beside and converse with their parishioners and church leaders who increasingly seem intent on no conversation at all and in slamming shut the doors and windows and through imposing traditional disciplines. The press continues to record the pain: Church not in communion with changed beliefs of Irish Catholics; Curia is stifling debate on church reform, says silenced priest; Most Irish want married priests; Pope has consistently come down on dissent within the church like a hammer. Malachy O’Doherty, a Belfast based journalist says “The autocratic approach of Pope Benedict has brought the Catholic Church in Ireland to the brink of schism.”
Church groups express concern over escalating Sudan conflict; Sudan says about 40,000 bpd of oil lost from Heglig; Sudan leader vows to 'free' South; Sudan and South Sudan teeter on the edge of war; Southern Sudanese fear forced repatriation; Peace and cattle in South Sudan
Clogher Titanic commemoration recalls Rector’s son; Mid–Africa Focus Event; Obit: Billy Neely 1935-2012; Christ Church Cathedral Past Choristers Association; Church leaders visit Derry bomb targets; Vandals target Moville Parish Church; Coalisland teens offered 'free drugs’; Police refute claims 'meth' circulating in Coalisland; Makeover for Ferrycarrig church
Cuts threaten social investment, says Archbishop Sentamu; Archbishop of Wales: 'Gospel of Jesus is good news for gay people'; Church in Wales gives “amber light” to Anglican Covenant; Methodist Church marks 100 day Olympic Games countdown; Don’t take the faith out of church schools; Backing for Church's opposition to increased VAT on heritage alterations