Stephen Cottrell will effectively become temporary leader of the Church in England next month after the resignation of ...

The Archbishop of York is expected to highlight the need for actions over words as he delivers a Christmas Day sermon at a ...

Perhaps the only comment the Archbishop of York could have made that would have satisfied his critics would have been to announce his resignation during his Christmas Day sermon and head off into the ...

The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell says Church should ‘kneel in penitence’ after criticism over failures in its handling of abuse ...

Sexual abuse scandals, having caused the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, now threaten to derail another senior ...

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The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, has used his Christmas Day sermon to call for change in the Church of England.

THE Church of England must “walk the talk”, the Archbishop of York said in a Christmas Day sermon at York Minster, in which ...

CHRISTMAS was once cancelled in England – and it wasn’t by the Grinch. It sounds like a nightmare – no mince pies, no carols, not even a Christmas tree in sight – but for almost 20 years ...

It comes at a challenging time for the Church, which has faced criticism over how it handled a number of abuse scandals. Stephen Cottrell will next month effectively become the Church's temporary ...

The Bishop of Oxford, Steven Croft, who has faced his own calls to resign, spoke of "a crisis in confidence in many of our ...