It now looks as if the Lambeth Conference is beginning to go in the direction hoped for by both the Archbishop of Canterbury and Rome ndash preventing schism through the centralisation of authority nbsp The three major proposals are these nbsp 1 nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp A new Ang

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor s address to the global summit of Anglican bishops meeting at Canterbury reminds them that the framework they are currently seeking has already been agreed to by the Anglican Church in decades of Catholic-Anglican dialogue aiming at unity between the two Churche

It s a shame that Anglicans don rsquo t have a Lourdes Let me explain This Pyrenean town in south-west France built around a nineteenth-century vision of our Lady in the form of the Immaculate Conception is the most visited religious place in the world after Mecca and Rome Since 1989 there

As is tradition Barack Obama placed a note in the Western Wall when visiting Jerusalem this past week Someone took the note and published it in an Israeli paper It read Lord Protect my family and me Forgive me my sins and help me guard against pride and despair Give me the wisdom to do what

There have been so few consistently beautifully transporting spiritual exercises undergone in my life as the ones occasioned by the growing up of our daughter She is three years old and was in the car with me recently when I played Journey s 1978 Infinity album She is usually entertained by t

What you thought of Barack Obama rsquo s speech in Berlin depends largely on what you thought of him beforehand nbsp nbsp If you have been swept up by Obamamania the specter of 200 000 Germans cheering an American waving American flags without so much as a whiff of protest is such a happy co