by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has described his private meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican earlier this week as “friendly and informal”. They spent almost half an hour in the Pope’s study. Afterwards Dr Williams said:...
by Sean Reilly | Apr 28, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has called on the government to do more to protect the poorest and most vulnerable from the likely consequences of an economic downturn. His comments, made late last week on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, in other...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 24, 2008
The celebration of Easter challenges human beings to accept death without delusion, but it also seeks to challenge our acceptance that death is without hope and the end to all meaning, says the Archbishop of Canterbury. In his Easter Sermon delivered at 10.30am at...
by Sean Reilly | Mar 16, 2008
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has joined worldwide tributes paid to Chiara Lubich, founder of the religious and humanitarian Focolare Movement, whose death was announced on Friday 14 March 2008. Focolare is an international organization promoting human...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 28, 2008
Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s headquarters, has rejected claims made in a speech earlier this week by Conservative leader David Cameron, that Dr Rowan Williams was seeking the incorporation of Sharia law in the UK. The row goes back to the...
