The Church Standard was a national Anglican newspaper based in Sydney, Australia, published from 1912 to 1952.
[1] It was founded in 1912 by Montagu Stone-Wigg, who had resigned as Bishop of New Guinea in 1908,[2] with the assistance of another Anglo-Catholic clergyman, the Rev William Hey Sharp, the former warden of St Paul's College.
[10] The paper was strongly critical of the censorship of a speech to have been broadcast on the ABC by Judge Foster in 1938.
Watts published articles by the radical Presbyterian theologian Samuel Angus and he himself wrote articles pleading for a more liberal interpretation of the Virgin Birth and the bodily Resurrection; these led to suggestions from churchmen in the Diocese of Sydney in 1937 that Watts should be charged with heresy.
[19] Its masthead stated that it incorporated the Church Standard; a number of diocesan newspapers were closed to support its viability.