Further reading: After Archbishop Welby's resignation, many challenges face the Church of England The abuser, John Smyth, a lawyer linked to the Church of England, died in 2018 in South Africa ...

Bishop of Manchester, who sits by right in the Lords, suggests abuse revealed during confession should be exempt from ...

Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

It was not Justin Welby’s place to forgive the most prolific abuser associated with the Church of England, a bishop has said.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla were joined by other members of the Royal Family at the service in Windsor.

Vicar of St James the Less refers to those attending as ‘people who have felt out in the cold’ in the Church of England ...

Regardless of the debate over whether churches should insist that their safeguarding officers be practising Christians, the ...

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop John Sherrington as the new archbishop of Liverpool. Sherrington replaces Archbishop Malcolm Patrick McMahon, OP, who submitted his resignation after serving the ...

THERE has been much criticism of the Rt Revd Justin Welby for saying, in a BBC interview with Laura Kuenssberg this week, that he “forgives” John ... Church of England. It was his misfortune to have ...

Justin Welby has spoken of a “deep sense of personal failure” over how allegations of horrific sexual abuse by the late John Smyth were handled ... only by victims but senior clergy in the Church of ...

An independent investigation into the abuses of John Smyth – which were first reported to the Church of England (C of E) in summer 2013, months after Welby took office – was published last November.