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  • 6 Nov 2011
    Responses to changed succession rules for British monarchs

    Catholics and leaders of the 16 Commonwealth countries where Queen Elizabeth II serves as head of state have welcomed an announcement by British Prime Minister David Cameron about changes to the royal succession that include allowing the monarch to marry a Roman Catholic.

  • 20 Sep 2011
    Monarch, jubilee and conscience

    Christians of all denominations have been invited to take part in lighting church beacons on 4 June 2012 to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

  • 29 Apr 2011
    Wedded to a right royal theological confusion

    Reading the church media over the past week, and probably for the succeeding one, would leave many people with the impression that the boundary between church and monarchy is virtually indecipherable. I find this elision of faith in God with a longing for worldly pomp and circumstance deeply disturbing.

  • 29 Apr 2011
    The mytho-poetics of royalty

    Monarchy as an institution rooted in inherited wealth and pure eugenic privilege stands in contrast with, and contradiction to, the levelling Gospel of Jesus Christ, argues Simon Barrow. But a kind of mythology and ritualising in the popular imagination prevents both Christians and others from seeing what is really going on, and what is wrong with it.

  • 29 Apr 2011
    Republic campaigners geared up for 'historic' royal wedding events

    Republicans from across Britain are heading towards central London today (29 April) for Republic's "Not the royal wedding" street party.

  • 22 Nov 2010
    A right Royal confusion

    The surge of popular feeling generated by the recent Royal engagement has pointed up a public inability to think rationally about the institution of monarchy, says Jill Segger. But the accompanying polls are perhaps a first step towards the logic of a republic.

  • 6 Jul 2010
    Tories ditch reform of monarchy and maintain anti-Catholic bias

    The UK coalition government has dropped previous plans to reform the monarchy - including ending a long-term ban on Catholic succession to the throne.

  • 2 Aug 2009
    A royal welcome to ResPublica

    The theologian and 'red Tory', Phillip Blond has just announced the emergence of his new think-tank, ResPublica, on his Facebook page.

  • 6 Jul 2009
    Campaigners criticise Queen for messages to hardline Anglican group

    Campaigners including Peter Tatchell and the pressure group Republic have attacked the Queen's decision to send a supportive message to the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA).

  • 16 Jun 2009
    We're sitting on a constitutional timebomb

    On Sunday’s Big Questions (BBC1) I suggested that as a country we were sitting on a ‘constitutional timebomb’ – something which Republic has picked up here: http://www.republic.org.uk/blog/?p=