Children are less likely to know the Our Father but are more likely to say religion is more important to them than children of 40 years ago, a BBC study shows. The survey marked 40 years since Newsround was first broadcast. The programme surveyed over 1,000 children aged 6-12 and 1,000 adults who’d have been Read more
Church of England takes uprecedented step of advertising for position following Dr Rowan Williams’ decision to step down.
If you are looking for more responsibility and influence in your next job then an advertisement published by the Church of England this weekend may just catch your eye – for the post of Archbishop of Canterbury.
The church has for the first time decided to advertise for the job, following the decision last week of Dr Rowan Williams to step down.
The job spec, published in the Church Times and the Church of England newspaper under the heading ‘Vacancy in the See of Canterbury’, states that “submissions will be gratefully received”.
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Doubts have now been cast over a report in the Telegraph that Twitter users will be invited to help choose the new Archbishop of Canterbury. The Telegraph reported on Wednesday that “Having wrestled with the best way to choose a new leader, the Church of England has decided to use the social networking site Twitter.” Read more
Britain’s Conservative MP’s have begun lobbying Prime Minister David Cameron to select a traditionalist candidate as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. In the midst of Britain’s debate on redefining marriage to include people of the same sex, Peter Bone, the MP for Wellingbrough and Rushden is one urging Cameron to choose someone who represents the Church’s traditional Read more
The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced his resignation. Dr Rowan Williams says he will quit at the end of the year to return to academic life. He has accepted a position as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge University. Hinting at the pressures of the job, he said he hoped his successor would have ‘the constitution of Read more
Pope Benedict has invited the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to give some theological reflections at October’s world Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelisation. “I’m being invited to give some theological reflections on the nature of mission, the nature of evangelization, and I’m extremely honored to be invited to do this,” Williams told Vatican Read more
Pope Benedict and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Church of England, on Saturday afternoon gave thanks together on the 1000th anniversary of the Camaldoli monastic community and celebrated Vespers in the church of St Gregory on the Caelian Hill. Williams is the third successive archbishop of Canterbury to visit San Gregorio Read more
Egypt’s Coptic Christians are worried by increased attacks on them and their churches by muslims and the military and would rather not draw too much attention to themselves by accepting too much foreign aid. A minority group in a Muslim country, they fear a backlash and so at this time when all Egyptians are suffering Read more
Jesus would have joined the anti-corporate Occupy movement protestors says Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. In an article for the Christmas edition of the Radio Times magazine, Williams considers the slogan ‘What Would Jesus Do?’, with particular reference to those involved in the recent events at St Paul’s Cathedral. “The Jesus we meet in Read more
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has consistently argued that rich nations should forgive the debts of poorer ones. Now, he faces a costly dilemma of his own.
His publisher, Darton, Longman and Todd, is struggling to pay off its debts and is seeking a company voluntary arrangement, which could mean the archbishop being asked to write off 75 per cent of the £15,000 that he is owed.
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