Exactly eleven weeks ago, our world celebrated the beginning of the year 2000 AD. That event was marked in many ways and many contexts, but its true significance surely lies in the letters 'AD', Anno Domini, the year of our Lord.
18 March 2000
I am delighted to be with you for this weekend and I thank your Archbishop for his welcome and indeed for his remarkable ministry, not only in this country and the United Kingdom generally, but for his outstanding leadership in the Anglican Communion.
18 March 2000
After more than ten years a vision has become a reality. The Bishop of Cork, the Rt Revd Paul Colton, recently dedicated the "Wheels Ministry" trailer for the Church Army.
08 March 2000
Two things have brought Wales on to the front pages of the national newspapers in the past few weeks. First there was the crisis in the Assembly; and then there was the Waterhouse report on the North Wales children's homes.
06 March 2000
'Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others'. We have heard those inspiring words twice already this afternoon. They are not a call to arms, but a call to service. And it is the idea of service that lies at the very heart of our presence here today.
04 March 2000
St Alban's church in Westbury Park, Bristol is looking for a potter to help demonstrate the craft that was an important part of life in town and villages in the Middle East two thousand years ago
02 March 2000
Two parishioners from Holy Trinity Church, Southwell, England, recently became the first married couple ever to walk to the South Pole. Mike and Fiona Thornewill completed the 750 mile trek across ice encouraged by the prayers and support of their friends back home.
24 February 2000
The new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster was announced at a press conferences on 15 February 2000. The new Archbishop is the current Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. The position had been vacant since June 1999 following the death of Cardinal Basil Hume, who had been Archbishop of Westminster since 1976.
24 February 2000
Major debates on the crisis in farming and on religious broadcasting are among the highlights of a short but busy meeting of General Synod later this month. The session will take place in London, at Church House, Westminster, from 28 February to 1 March.
18 February 2000
In July 1981 the General Synod of the Church of England carried a resolution, which stated that "there are circumstances in which a divorced person may be married in church during the lifetime of a former partner." Following a report published recently, Marriage in Church after divorce, the House of Bishops has set about a process to define the circumstances that the General Synod had in mind when it passed that resolution by large majorities in each House.
11 February 2000