Unity at the feet of Bernadette

WHEN Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher visited Pope John XXIII in 1960, he was apparently astonished when the Pope’s initial remarks included a warm com­mendation...

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Simon Parke: Training the trainers

THERE WERE more police than was either legal or decent.

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C of E ‘jolly’ that misses the point

IT IS APPROPRIATE that Back to Church Sunday (BTCS) takes place during the party conference season.

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Leader: The fruitless hunt for more stuff

THE Revd Tim Hastie-Smith quoted a range of sources in his chairman’s address to the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference on Monday evening

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100 years ago: Silence of the looms

The Church Times expressed the hope that the President of the Board of Trade, Winston Churchill, would intervene tactfully to end the Lancashire Cotton...

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Heed the children’s plea: ‘Make us ecwool’

‘There are children who may have never been on holiday, never seen the sea’

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Able to cope with the slump

AS A former financial journalist, I have found it hard not to get caught up as history has been made in the financial markets.

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Giles Fraser: Facial hair: progressive or passé?

I WAS STANDING in a faux-medieval village in Brittany, when a defiantly Celtic-looking character in a long beard offered to take my family on a local...

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Paul Vallely: At last — good news for the poor

BONO and the Archbishop of York said the same thing and got the same kind of headlines.

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