From next year children in the Archdiocese of Liverpool will be confirmed before they receive their first Holy Communion, local Church authorities have announced.

Christians have made "enormous progress" towards unity, Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark has told the Anglican congregation of Southwark Cathedral.

Archbishop Vincent Nichols has launched an annual pilgrimage to the Holy Land for the Diocese of Westminster.

Benedict XVI welcomed signs of a new "togetherness" between Catholics and Lutherans in an address to members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany yesterday (full text).