I have just issued the following statement:
“I am delighted to hear that the Anglican Church in Brazil has just changed its marriage canon to allow same-sex couples to get married. As we have rejoiced in St Mary’s Cathedral Glasgow in recent months with couples who have waited years to be married in church, so we rejoice with couples doing the same thing in Brazil.
“All God’s children are equally beloved. We rejoice as greater equality comes to another part of the Anglican Communion”
What do you call the fabby vestment-with-train +Idris is wearing? I thought that the falda was for Popes only!
Whatever you do, don’t show these pictures to the successful candidate in tomorrow’s election. It might give her/him ideas.
I think that +Idris was wearing a Cappa Magna.
Maybe its because I am from the US, but some of the pictures made me distinctly uncomfortable!No, I am not “low” church. And I didn’t think that +Idris looked all that comfortable in some of the “long train” photos. It is beautiful, but far too Roman looking for my taste. And need I say that where were the women in this party? š
We’ve been clearing some old documents out of the dank crypt this week and one or two interesting things have emerged. Not least a couple of photographs from 1962. We forget now that we photograph anything and everything all the time that in previous decades a photo was relatively rare. This one was taken at…
This review also appears on the Opera Britannia website Rating: Taking AlbanĀ BergāsĀ LuluĀ as a starting point,Ā Scottish OperaĀ at theĀ Edinburgh International FestivalĀ presentĀ American Lulu –Ā a new re-envisioned interpretation of this piece by Austrian composerĀ Olga Neuwirth, who re-orchestrates Bergās original, attempts to set it within the context of the Civil Rights movement in America and provides a conclusion to compensate…
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