Dear Friends, ‘Christ is risen. He is risen indeed. Alleluia!’ As I sit down to write this Easter letter, I am reliably informed, by the daffodils and tulips, that spring has officially arrived. It doesn’t feel like it to me - with the wind blowing and sleet falling, though it is a sunny, blue sky day. Daffodils, with their open faces, seem to lean toward the light as if they’ve been waiting for it. Tulips hold themselves with a kind of gentle confidence, each one unfolding in its own time....

Archbishop Sarah On 28 th January 2026, Dame Sarah Mullally was officially confirmed as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury in a ceremony at St Paul's Cathedral. The ceremony was a mix of religious service and legal process. Before being ordained, Dame Sarah had worked as a nurse in the NHS. She specialised as a cancer nurse and rose to be Director of Nursing at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. In 1999, at the age of 37, she was appointed as the Government’s Chief Nursing...

King Charles lll prayed in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel alongside Pope Leo XlV recently - the first British Monarch to pray with a pontiff since King Henry Vlll broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th Century. The King hailed the "joining of hands between the Catholic Church and the Church of England" as a celebration of ecumenism. They were joined by the Anglican Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols.