Category: Church of England
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Paula Vennells, the disgraced Post Office CEO, came within a whisker of becoming Bishop of London
THE Anglican priest, who apparently found Mammon more attractive than Jesus and destroyed hundreds of lives while amassing a fortune, is to surrender the CBE she was awarded for services to the Post Office and charity Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. PAULA Vennells was practically unknown…
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Church of England is now ‘formally broken’ because of same-sex blessings
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. BACK in 1917 a forgotten suffragette, Agnes Maude Royden, described the C of E as “the Conservative Party at Prayer,” and like the Tories today the Church is at all-out war with itself. At the root of the latest problem…
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National Secular Society blasts £3.2-m scheme to reveal Jesus to school pupils in Guildford
FOLLOWING the release of a promotional video in which Church of England “mission enabler” Alastair Etheridge, above, explains that the indoctrination scheme is designed to attract more children to Christianity, the NSS described the initiative as “cynical” and “sinister”. In a Diocese of Guildford Facebook post Etheridge says: It is our hope that through our…
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Evangelical leaders praised U.K. celebrity preacher after he was exposed as an abuser of young men
AFTER Mike Pilavachi, above, former associate pastor at Soul Survivor Church in Watform, resigned in disgrace earlier this year, global evangelical leaders sent him messages of praise and support. An investigation by The Telegraph revealed how Pilavachi allegedly encouraged a “conveyor belt” of young, attractive men—many of whom were vulnerable and had difficult childhoods—to receive…
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Times newspaper accused of being ‘antagonistic’ to Christians after it surveyed attitudes of C of E clerics
THE survey, which shows that a majority of priests are out of step with core Church or England doctrine, was slammed this week by hate group Christian Concern, headed by the dotty Andrea Minichiello Williams and Rev Dr Ian Paul, inset above, a member of the Anglican Archbishops’ Council. The Times reported that 53 percent…
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U.S. Catholic’s macabre plan to have Thomas More’s head put on public display rebuffed
MORE’S head, separated from his body in 1535 after he got on the wrong side of King Henry VIII, was parboiled, put on a stake for a month, retrieved by his daughter and wound up hidden in a vault in an Anglican church. Its absence from public view at St Dunstan’s in Canterbury. apparently irked…
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Top UK cleric suspended from active ministry over the way he handled abuse claim
JOHN Sentamu, former Archbishop of York and a member of the House of Lords, has reacted with anger to his suspension, claiming that “safeguarding is very important but it does not trump Church Law.” The suspension of the “arrogant bully” is centred on Sentamu’s mishandling of a rape allegation made against Anglican priest Trevor Devamanikkam. Devamanikkam,…
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King Charles’ s coronation ‘is first and foremost an act of Christian worship’ says Archbishop of Canterbury
WHEN Charles is crowned king on May 6 at a service at Westminster Abbey, the entire country will be asked to swear a religious oath of allegiance to the monarch. Those watching the crowning have been asked to say: I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and…
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Petition to remove bishops from the House of Lords launched by UK writer, comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig
The move comes as MPs consider bringing the Church of England into line with the law of the land with regard to same-sex marriage. IN her petition the popular British-Danish personality insists that “whatever goes on inside religious organisations, the Church should not be allowed to hold sway in the Houses of Parliament. “ It…
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Why is worship in schools still mandatory when religious belief among the young in the UK is plummeting?
Images via Pexels LUDICROUS as it may seem, each pupil attending a community, foundation or voluntary school in England is required to take part in an act of collective worship each school day. This, despite the fact that more than 50 percent of young people—the baby boomers, the millennials and generation Z—are all turning away…
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