Daily Briefing for Thursday 22nd November 2012

Issued at 09.05 by NC/RH
Cecilia, martyr, c.230
Tomorrow: Clement, bishop, martyr, c.100

1.  Press release from Lambeth Palace

Synod bids farewell to Archbishop Rowan Williams
General Synod this said an affectionate and moving farewell to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/articles.php/2719/synod-bids-farewell-to-archbishop-rowan-williams

2.  Today's press coverage

Times p1, 6 &7, FT p4, Tel p8, Guard p18, Ind p10 I p11, Mail p10, Exp p10, Sun p6, Mirror p2, Even Stand p4, WSJ p6, Metro p17, BBC Online
Continuing coverage of the women bishops debate focusing on Archbishop Rowan's address to Synod and PM Cameron's comments in the Commons.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3607971.ece
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3607315.ece
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3607981.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9692494/Women-bishops-Churchs-final-no.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20426123
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bc349e5c-3406-11e2-8270-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2CwC5eZfi
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2236114/Women-bishops-vote-sad-day-leaves-Church-England-chaos.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/church-of-england-in-crisis-archbishop-of-canterbury-attacks-members-for-voting-against-women-bishops-8339611.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236579/PMs-rebuke-women-bishops-vote-Cameron-tells-Church-programme.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/women-bishops-david-cameron-threatens-1449566

Times p2, 6 & 30, FT p12, Tel p8, 25 27 & 29, Guard p7, 19 & 38, (G2) p5, Ind p11, 23, I p11, 27, Exp p22, Mirror p22, Even Stand p 4, 14 & 16, FT p12
Extensive comment and editorial on Synod's decision on Women Bishop's some of it comparing the CofE to other all-male institutions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9693284/Women-bishops-a-failure-of-leadership.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/21/david-cameron-vote-against-women-bishops
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0da311be-33db-11e2-9ae7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2CwC5eZfi
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3607996.ece
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/leaders/article3607796.ece
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/matthewparris/article3607745.ece
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/72faf6fa-33cf-11e2-9ce7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2CwC5eZfi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/allison-pearson/9694402/Swaziland-has-a-woman-bishop-why-not-Suffolk.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/9693301/Leave-the-Church-be.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/church-england-continue-arm-state
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/nov/21/female-bishops-ashamed-church-of-england
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/21/female-bishops-embarrassing-bodies?INTCMP=SRCH
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/female-bishops-supporter
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-i-voted-no-to-women-bishops-8340833.html

Letters
Times p33 Ven Norman Russell, Tim Belben, J Edwards, Revd John Searle, Revd Brian Anderson, Janet Parker, Robert Leach
The Church of England must resolve its differences.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article3607540.ece

FT p12 Andrew Hall
God's shareholders miss their chance
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4fb77870-331c-11e2-aabc-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2CwKL0XWb

Tel p27 Harvey Griffiths, Rosie Rushton, Peter Fowles, Bryan Clark, Stephen Hargraves, Judith Hereford, K Byrne, Michael Knight
Refusal to protect deeply held beliefs led to Cof E's failure to agree on women bishops
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9693981/Refusal-to-protect-deeply-held-beliefs-led-to-Church-of-Englands-failure-to-agree-on-women-bishops.html

Guard p39 Robert Dimmick, Elizabeth Oakley, Ian Flintoff, Priscilla Bench-Capon, Prof David Stephens, Fr Alec Mitchell, David Holmes
Justice delayed by vote against female bishops
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9693981/Refusal-to-protect-deeply-held-beliefs-led-to-Church-of-Englands-failure-to-agree-on-women-bishops.html

Ind p24 canon Tony Chesterman, Jon Payne, Jan Hepburn, Cate Tate-Smith, Julien Evans, W Holloway
Synod vote shows a church locked in misogyny
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/letters-synod-vote-shows-a-church-locked-in-misogyny-8340875.html

Exp p48 Ian Linney
Don't sacrifice faith on the altar of modernity
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/21/mps-law-on-prisoners-votes

Tel p8, Mail p1 & 4, Ind p11
Reports that the Government plans to lay legislation allowing gay marriage before parliament in the New Year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9694947/Gay-marriage-could-be-approved-within-weeks.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-presses-ahead-with-gay-marriage-vote-8341202.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2038427/Gay-marriage-legal-Britain-2015.html
Tel p4 & 27, BBC Online
Report and commentary that CS Lewis will be honoured with a memorial in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9693294/C-S-Lewis-deserves-his-place-in-Poets-Corner.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20426778

Letters
Guard p39 Juliet Lyon (Dir, Prison Trust) and others
MPs should not flout law on prisoners' votes

Obituaries
Times p62
The Rt Revd Eric Devenport
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article3607553.ece

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