Professor Hedgehog's Journal

The recent Anglican conference at Lambeth led to some controversial decisions, of which the most surprising, perhaps, was an agreement to work with other churches worldwide to fix the date of Easter. It was almost as surprising that the initiative for this startling break with tradition originated with the Coptic Church, not one usually associated with radical change. The archbishop of Canterbury rather sweetly suggested that any decision was unlikely to be applied in less than five years, because the calendar industry had probably already got stocks in for 2020. I dispute this: how can they possibly know already who the hot seminarians to feature in Calendario Romano (available ‘in all kioscos and souvenir store of Rome and Venice’), let alone the cutest puppies and kittens, will be in five years’ time? Continue reading →