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Minister Snubs Call For Debate On Prejudice Against Faithful
BY SIMON CALDWELL EQUALITY MINISTER Harriet Harman has dismissed a call from a Catholic MP for a House of Commons debate on prejudice against Christians in the public sector.......
Baroness Thatcher Meets Pope
BY DAVID V BARRETT BARONESS THATCHER met Pope Benedict XVI last week after his weekly audience at the Vatican and urged him to visit Britain. The 83-year-old former Prime......
Mandy Smith Returns To Faith
BY DAVID V BARRETT A TEENAGE wild child who married a Rolling Stone is now a practising Catholic, it emerged this week. Mandy Smith, whose relationship with the Stones bass......
Hundreds Protest Against Sale Of Fawley Court
HUNDREDS of people gathered at Fawley Court on Whit Sunday to pray that the £22m mansion and grounds be retained for the Polish community. The Marian Fathers who own the mansion......
Paisley Bishop Laments Job Losses
BISHOP Philip Tartaglia of Paisley last week expressed his sorrow at the news of 800 job losses at the electronics company Hewlett Packard in Erskine, Renfrewshire, which is in......
Cardinal Will Not Join Foundation
CARDINAL Cormac Murphy-O’Connor will not join Tony Blair’s Faith Foundation, it was announced last week. Mr Blair, who became a Catholic in December 2007, drew criticism in......
Cardinal To Visit Secret Seminary
CARDINAL Keith O’Brien is to celebrate an open-air Mass on the site of a secret seminary that kept the faith alive in Scotland during the 18th century. The Scalan seminary, in......
Mps’ Fall Was Caused By Greed, Says Cardinal
BY MARK GREAVES CARDINAL Keith O’Brien has accused MPs of greed and of “failing to set objective standards of behaviour for a generation”. The cardinal said in a homily at St......
Catholic College Established In Oxford
BY MARK GREAVES A NEW Catholic college has been established in Oxford only a year after the controversial closure of the Capuchin-run Greyfriars Hall. The college, St Bede’s......
Pro-lifers Fight To See Abortion Records
BY ALANNAH FRANCIS PRO - LIFE campaigners continued their fight to obtain information about late abortions at a tribunal this week. The Department of Health argued that the......