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Schools Must Teach Civil Partnerships, Says Ed Balls
BY DAVID V BARRETT AND ANDREW M BROWN FAITH schools must be “absolutely clear about the importance of civil partnerships”, Schools Secretary Ed Balls said last weekend. In an......
Almost 100,000 People Drawn To Exhibition Of Devotional Art
BY DAVID V BARRETT THE Sacred Made Real exhibition at the National Gallery has “exceeded all expectations” with almost 100,000 visitors – triple the number of visitors expected......
Cardinal Pell Becomes Patron Of New Oxford Hall
ST BEDE ’s HALL at Oxford, which filled the place left by the closing of Greyfriars Hall in 2008, announced last week that Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney has become a......
Cafod Criticises Congo Goldmine
CATHOLIC overseas development agency Cafod is questioning the benefits of local people of a proposed goldmine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A joint report by Cafod and......
Archbishop Opens `village'
ARCHBISHOP Vincent Nichols of Westminster opened a £47 million “learning village” in Tower Hamlets, London, last Friday. The project, attached to the Bishop Challoner Catholic......
School In `most Improved' List
ST GEORGE ’ S Catholic school in Maida Vale, London, whose headmaster Philip Lawrence was stabbed to death in 1995, has been named as one of the top 50 most improved schools in......
Diocese Criticised For Buying New House
BY ALANNAH FRANCIS THE DIOCESE of Shrewsbury has spent £260,000 on a new home for a Wirral priest yards away from the presbytery of the controversially closed Ss Peter and......
Pro-life Lay Dominican To Stand At Election
BY ED WEST A CATHOLIC former Labour Party member disillusioned by its perceived anti-life, antifamily stance is to stand against a Labour candidate selected as part of a......
Irish Bishops To Meet Benedict Xvi About Child Abuse
BY STAFF REPORTER POPE BENEDICT XVI has convened Ireland’s bishops for a two-day meeting at the Vatican to discuss the ongoing fallout from the priestly sex abuse scandal. The......