Where there is discord, may we bring harmony?

The long-awaited start of gay blessings unsurprisingly does nothing to ease tensions in the C of E, while Francis scores his biggest scalp yet in Vatican anti-corruption purge. Plus links and podcasts

Hello and welcome to the final Critical Friend before I take a few weeks off over Christmas and New Year’s. But before then, we’ve got lots of juicy church news to work through, so let’s get cracking.

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