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GCSEs are a pointless waste of time

A few facts. Last year almost 70% of 16 year olds achieved at least 5 GCSE passes with grades A*-C. ...

Asylum seekers: When the questions tell us so much more than the answers

For the last four years I've been paying my karmic dues (I would say "contributing to the big societ...

Thanks to The Sun, for enriching each of our lives

Those at the super-soaraway Sun are, yet again, making outlandish claims that they’ve changed the wo...

'Disaster' beckons for world without faith, warns Tony Blair

15 May 2012 09:00 AM

Former Prime Minister tells conference how 'obligation of humility is deeply important'

Child sex abuse in the Church: alliance demands full inquiry

19 April 2012 05:56 PM

Anglican and Catholic churches have lost the right to police themselves, say victims

Dr Rowan Williams gives his Easter sermon at Canterbury

Williams attacks exclusion of RE in his final Easter sermon

09 April 2012 12:00 AM

Outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury and Catholic leaders take on highly charged political subjects

He was long considered to be more liberal than the likes of cardinal winning... but he’s grown more confrontational

Trending: The turbulent priest with form for controversial comments

06 March 2012 12:00 AM

In the best tradition of Catholic archbishops, Britain's most senior priest is also its most turbulent. Writing in The Sunday Telegraph on 4 March, Cardinal Keith O'Brien called the prospect of gay marriage "grotesque", then likened it to the legalisation of slavery. Interviewed during yesterday's edition of the Today programme, he said the Government's proposed legislation would be an "aberration" that "shamed our country", "violated human rights" and caused society to degenerate "even further than it has already degenerated, into immorality".

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, claimed the proposals are “madness”, it was reported today.

Cardinal attacks government gay marriage plans

04 March 2012 08:20 AM

David Cameron faces fresh pressure from church leaders over the Government's plans for gay marriage.

Church 'has no right to say who can wed'

25 February 2012 12:00 AM

The Church does not have the exclusive right to say who can marry, a Government minister has said, as she promised to press ahead with plans for same-sex marriages.

Lent to be observed by more than one in five UK adults

21 February 2012 09:03 AM

More than one in five British adults is planning to observe the Christian season of Lent when it starts tomorrow, according to a survey.

B&B owners Peter and Hazelmary Bull: 'penalised for their beliefs'

Christians outraged after court rulings 'push religion to margins'

11 February 2012 12:00 AM

Christian campaigners were left complaining that their faith has been "pushed to the margins" of British society yesterday after two separate rulings restricted its role in public life.

Archbishop to renew his evolution battle with Dawkins

11 February 2012 12:00 AM

The Archbishop of Canterbury and atheist Professor Richard Dawkins are set to go head to head to discuss the biggest unanswered question of them all.

Pilgrim's progress: Journey to the Heart of Islam

30 January 2012 12:00 AM

Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam at the British Museum attempts to distil a spiritual experience into an art exhibition. Arifa Akbar, who has travelled to Mecca, is impressed

Goodwill to all men – apart from the bankers

26 December 2011 12:00 AM

Christian leaders delivered a string of politically-charged sermons yesterday attacking financial greed – capping a year of tumultuous events that has often seen the religious establishment wrong-footed.

There's a reason for the rhyme, insists the rapping reverend

26 December 2011 12:00 AM

The parishioners of Uplyme in Devon are sticklers for yuletide tradition: get up, turkey in the oven, glass of Buck's Fizz, open the presents... then it's off to church through the morning mist to listen to the human beatboxing vicar.

Scientists say Turin Shroud is supernatural

20 December 2011 12:00 AM

Italian government scientists have claimed to have discovered evidence that a supernatural event formed the image on the Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict conducts Mass in London last year. The Vatican is accused of high-handedness

English Catholics braced for a Mass disturbance

26 November 2011 12:00 AM

Feelings are running high about the introduction of a new translation of the traditional liturgy

The End Of The World Again

15 October 2011 12:00 AM

There have always been doomsday predictions – and we're all still here. But is a new index which shows imminent Armageddon a cause for worry, wonders Ted Harrison