The following statements were issued on 11 December 2025 by Lambeth Palace and the Bishop of London. Lambeth Palace and Bishop of London statements Lambeth Palace and Bishop

of London statements [...]

The Church of England has issued the Statement, reproduced below, following the broadcast of the Channel 4 documentary See No Evil. Statement on Smyth documentary Statement

on Smyth documentary [...]

Subsequent to the recent updates on events at Bangor Cathedral, here and here, on 4 December 2025, The Dean and Chapter issued a further announcement, the English version

of which is reproduced in full below. [...]

Scotland: hydrolysis as an alternative option to burial or cremation The Scottish Government laid the Hydrolysis (Scotland) (No. 1) Regulations 2026 and the Hydrolysis (Scotland)

(No. 2) Regulations 2026 in the Scottish Parliament on 3 December. The Regulations will enable hydrolysis to be offered as an alternative option to burial or cremation. [...]

Very happy to announce the publication this month of Andrea Pin’s latest book, Dignity in Judgment: Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective (Oxford). Andrea

is a Full Professor at Padua and one of the world’s leading scholars in comparative constitutional law–as well as a friend of the Mattone Center and frequent [...]

Review of the ecclesiastical court judgments during November The ten consistory court judgments circulated in November 2025 included: The ten consistory court judgments circulated

in November 2025 [...]

In Wojewoda Mazowiecki [2025] EUECJ C-713/23 (in French), the Grand Chamber of the ECJ was asked to rule on a request from a same-sex couple, Jakub Cupriak-Trojan and Mateusz

Trojan, for their marriage, contracted in Germany, to be registered in the State marriage register in Poland [2]. [...]

Clerical abuse in Northern Ireland The Reference Group of Northern Ireland’s Interdepartmental Working Group set up to oversee research and develop recommendations relating

to historical mother and baby institutions, Magdalene laundries and historical clerical child abuse more generally, may institute proceedings against the Northern [...]

On 25 November, the Governing Body of the Church in Wales agreed time-limited constitutional changes that would allow an interim Bishop to be appointed to the Diocese of Bangor.

Members voted by 75 to 4 (with 7 abstentions) in favour of the proposal from the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Cherry Vann, following last month’s announcement [...]

The Tables of Parochial Fees for the Church in Wales from 1 January 2025 are available on the church’s website, and extracts are reproduced below [1]. 1 There are no fees

for Baptism: However, families often want to make a gift as a token of their thanksgiving and appreciation. Charges for Memorial Fees and Searches in church registers [...]