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The Church of England's most senior bishop has launched a blistering attack on Nigel Farage's small boats policy. Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell branded the Reform UK leader's proposals for mass deportations as being 'isolationist, short-term' and 'kneejerk'. Mr Farage this week set out plans to deport 600,000 migrants through 'Operation Restoring Justice' which he hopes to implement should his party win the next election. But the archbishop, who is the most senior figure in the CofE in the absence of an Archbishop of Canterbury, said Mr Farage was not offering a solution to the 'big issues' which are driving...

(RNS) — Diocesan hermits by nature don’t get much attention. A small subset of religious persons, hermits mostly spend their lives engaged in quiet prayer. Brother Christian Matson, a Catholic diocesan hermit in Kentucky, has spent years doing just that. His monk’s habit might catch his neighbor’s eye, but he is known in the town where he lives primarily through his work with the local theater. But recently Matson decided that his faith compels him to make a little more noise than usual. “This Sunday, Pentecost 2024, I’m planning to come out publicly as transgender,” Matson told Religion News Service...