Priests are warned against making ‘disparaging remarks’ on social media in a new safeguarding document drawn up by the Catholic bishops of England and Wales. The guidelines, Pastoral Standards and Safe Practices in the Conduct of Ministry, sent to every bishop, secular and religious priest and deacon, set out how to guard against abuse and Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Archbishop of Westminster’
Prince Charles attending Cardinal Newman’s canonisation
Monday, September 16th, 2019
The Prince of Wales will travel to Rome to attend Cardinal John Henry Newman’s canonisation at the Vatican next month. “As one who has been a lifelong champion of the spiritual in everyday life, to promote understanding between faiths, and who has sought to alleviate poverty and disadvantage through his charitable work, the Prince of Read more
Archbishop supports homosexual civil unions
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, has publicly expressed support for homosexual civil unions. In a move that seemed to put him at odds with the Catholic Church, on November 26 Nichols said, “As a Church we are very committed to the notion of equality so that people are treated the same across all the activities of Read more
Westminster Archbishop – cuts hit the vulnerable the hardest
Friday, December 2nd, 2011Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has said in a speech to MPs, peers and charity workers that Government cuts are “already being felt disproportionally by the most vulnerable”.
It is the closest a Catholic bishop in England and Wales has come to criticising the Coalition’s austerity measures.
Read the article...Archbishop of Canterbury: “Big Society” painfully stale
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s sharp rebuke of the British government’s welfare reform has put the Church of England in the midst of a major political debate. Writing in the New Statesman, Dr Rowan Williams questioned the morality of David Cameron’s Conservative party’s policies on welfare reform. Dr Williams attacked changes in the National Health Service Read more
- Leader: The government needs to know how afraid people are (Archbishop Williams' article)
- PM David Cameron: "I disagree with the Archbishop over coalition policies".
- The Archbishop should not have played politics
- Archbishop defended by Lord Tebbit
- Archbishop of Canterbury's comments provoke response from British government
- Why the Catholic Church stands to gain from Rowan Williams' outburst
- Archbishop of the Opposition
- The Big Society and Catholic Social teaching
- Rowan Williams has exposed his ignorance and crass insensitivity yet again