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Slaughter In Afghanistan Must Stop Says Bishop
BY MARK GREAVES BISHOP THOMAS Burns of Menevia has called for more helicopters and better funding of the war in Afghanistan at a Requiem Mass for a 20-year-old soldier. He said......
Anglican Traditionalists Hold Talks At The Vatican
BY ANNA ARCO THREE ANGLO - CATHOLIC bishops have held talks with senior officials in Rome about possibility of establishing an ordinariate in Britain. The traditionalists Bishop......
Police Arrest Preacher Under Hooligan Law
BY DAVID V BARRETT A STREET preacher in Workington, Cumbria, has been arrested for saying that homosexuality is a sin. Dale McAlpine, 42, was preaching outside a mobile phone......
Secularists Try To Ban Prayers From Council Meetings
BY ED WEST THE NATIONAL Secular Society (NSS) is attempts to have prayers before local government meetings banned used human rights legislation. The militant atheist group......
Irish Bishop Welcomes The Relics Of St John Vianney
IRISH BISHOP Philip Boyce of Raphoe told priests the relic of the heart of St John Vianney could make them “more keenly aware of the horror of sin”. The life of St John Vianney,......
Teacher Cleared Of Murder Charge
A TEACHER WHO assaulted a pupil at a Catholic school in Nottinghamshire was found not guilty of attempted murder last week. Goaded by a disruptive class last July, science......
Religious Faith ʻnot A Problemʼ
ARCHBISHOP Vincent Nichols of Westminster has called on the media to help to dispel the “ignorance of the true character of religious belief in this country today”. Speaking at......
Cts Ships Books To Us
THE CATHOLIC Truth Society, a London-based publisher, has permitted Ignatius Press to distribute 40 of its most popular titles in the US and Canada. The project, launched this......
Memorial Mass For Danny La Rue
A MEMORIAL Mass has been celebrated in Corpus Christi, Covent Garden, for female impersonator Danny La Rue, film-maker Vince Powell and actor Alan Martell. Fr Chris Vipers......