WE most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness,
O Lord, to comfort and succour all them, who
in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow,
need, sickness, or any other adversity.
Communion Service
O Lord, to comfort and succour all them, who
in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow,
need, sickness, or any other adversity.
Communion Service
News & Views
BELOW you can find some news stories selected from the newspapers and from blogs. At the foot of the list (here) you can find the latest Headlines from Sky News.
Thursday 18th March, 2010
❖ Police banned from asking for someone’s Christian name ‘because it might offend those of other faiths’
Under strict new ‘diversity guidelines’ officers have also been told to refrain from using phrases such as ‘Evening all,’ and to be wary of using a handshake when greeting people.
Daily Express (March 18)
Under strict new ‘diversity guidelines’ officers have also been told to refrain from using phrases such as ‘Evening all,’ and to be wary of using a handshake when greeting people.
Daily Express (March 18)
❖ Third of people believe religious freedoms are being restricted
Nearly a third of people believe that religious freedoms have been restricted in this country over the past decade, a new survey shows.
Telegraph (March 18)
Related to this story: Bishop Gore (1853-1932) on the different moral authorities of the Church and the State
Nearly a third of people believe that religious freedoms have been restricted in this country over the past decade, a new survey shows.
Telegraph (March 18)
Related to this story: Bishop Gore (1853-1932) on the different moral authorities of the Church and the State
❖ Radio 4 called on to scrap national anthem at end of broadcast as it stops listeners falling asleep
“Radio 4 should catch up with modern times and cease this jingoistic gesture.”
Daily Express (March 18)
“Radio 4 should catch up with modern times and cease this jingoistic gesture.”
Daily Express (March 18)
❖ CDC: Gay Men Over 44 Times More Likely HIV+ than Hetero Men
Gay leader admits homosexual behavior extremely high-risk.
LifeSiteNews (March 18)
Gay leader admits homosexual behavior extremely high-risk.
LifeSiteNews (March 18)
❖ If the Pope is responsible, what about the Secretary of Education?
When was the last time you heard someone call for the resignation of the Secretary of Education for the widespread sexual abuse of children in US public schools?
Insight Scoop (March 18)
When was the last time you heard someone call for the resignation of the Secretary of Education for the widespread sexual abuse of children in US public schools?
Insight Scoop (March 18)
❖ £1,000 fine for using wrong bin: Families face new crackdown over household waste
Food scraps, tea bags and vegetable peelings thrown into the wrong dustbin could land them with hefty penalties under government plans.
Daily Mail (March 17)
Food scraps, tea bags and vegetable peelings thrown into the wrong dustbin could land them with hefty penalties under government plans.
Daily Mail (March 17)
❖ Poll Reveals 46% of Doctors Would Quit if Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill Passed
A new poll finds nearly half the nation’s physicians would consider quitting of the bill becomes law.
LifeNews (March 17)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
A new poll finds nearly half the nation’s physicians would consider quitting of the bill becomes law.
LifeNews (March 17)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
❖ 126 workers a day join public payroll... while private employers axe 1,440 jobs
About 1,440 private sector workers lost their jobs every day last year - but the number of State workers rose by 126 a day, including weekends.
Daily Mail (March 17)
About 1,440 private sector workers lost their jobs every day last year - but the number of State workers rose by 126 a day, including weekends.
Daily Mail (March 17)
❖ European economic government is inevitable
So says the Belgian Prime Minister, Yves Leterme.
Daniel Hannan MEP (March 17)
So says the Belgian Prime Minister, Yves Leterme.
Daniel Hannan MEP (March 17)
❖ Catholic adoption society wins court battle over gay rights exemption
Catholic Care has unexpectedly won a High Court battle against legislation forcing it to consider homosexual couples as parents.
Telegraph (March 17)
Catholic Care has unexpectedly won a High Court battle against legislation forcing it to consider homosexual couples as parents.
Telegraph (March 17)
❖ Benefits: £1.85bn mistakenly overpaid
Whitehall officials are desperately trying to recoup £1.85billion in benefits mistakenly overpaid to welfare claimants, a report revealed last night.
Daily Express (March 17)
Whitehall officials are desperately trying to recoup £1.85billion in benefits mistakenly overpaid to welfare claimants, a report revealed last night.
Daily Express (March 17)
❖ Capital’s ‘green’ trams will cause extra pollution
Edinburgh's “cleaner and greener” tram project will cause as much damage to the environment every year as almost 16,000 flights to London.
Daily Express (March 17)
Edinburgh's “cleaner and greener” tram project will cause as much damage to the environment every year as almost 16,000 flights to London.
Daily Express (March 17)
❖ Rise of grey power as ministers call for 90-year-olds to sit on juries to ‘fulfil their rights’
The rights of older people to play a full part in civic life should take priority over the risk that they will fall asleep or forget the evidence, a consultation paper said.
Daily Mail (March 16)
The rights of older people to play a full part in civic life should take priority over the risk that they will fall asleep or forget the evidence, a consultation paper said.
Daily Mail (March 16)
❖ Youths jeered ‘jump! jump!’ at suicidal woman teetering on 150ft ledge
The gang, aged 12 to 14, watched as a woman clung to a ledge at the top of a multi-storey car park and yelled: ‘Go on then, jump you b****’.
Daily Mail (March 16)
The gang, aged 12 to 14, watched as a woman clung to a ledge at the top of a multi-storey car park and yelled: ‘Go on then, jump you b****’.
Daily Mail (March 16)
❖ 19th century church gutted by fire after yobs torch crucifix and Bible
The caretaker of St Mary’s in Westry, Cambridgeshire, had to be pulled back from the burning building after arriving to see a wooden cross and Bible engulfed in flames.
Daily Mail (March 16)
The caretaker of St Mary’s in Westry, Cambridgeshire, had to be pulled back from the burning building after arriving to see a wooden cross and Bible engulfed in flames.
Daily Mail (March 16)
❖ Traditional image of marriage being eroded by same-sex unions, warns top family lawyer
“This is not a moral issue; it is about disguising true facts, and it is about confusing biological parenthood, legal and social parenthood.”
Daily Mail (March 16)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Anglican tradition on marriage
“This is not a moral issue; it is about disguising true facts, and it is about confusing biological parenthood, legal and social parenthood.”
Daily Mail (March 16)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Anglican tradition on marriage
❖ Michael Gove says Cameron’s Conservatives are the heirs to New Labour
Once upon a time in a political galaxy that feels far, far away, a youngish man called David Cameron was reported to have declared: “I am the heir to Blair.”
James Kirkup (March 16)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Anglican tradition on (real) conservative values
Once upon a time in a political galaxy that feels far, far away, a youngish man called David Cameron was reported to have declared: “I am the heir to Blair.”
James Kirkup (March 16)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Anglican tradition on (real) conservative values
❖ 75% of Canadians Say “Abortion is Morally Wrong”: Poll
A new national poll indicates that a large majority of Canadians are increasingly opposing abortion and supporting the true definition of marriage.
LifeSiteNews (March 16)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
A new national poll indicates that a large majority of Canadians are increasingly opposing abortion and supporting the true definition of marriage.
LifeSiteNews (March 16)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
❖ Climategate: two more bricks fall out of the IPCC wall of deceit – rainforests and polar bears
Unhappily for Al, Phil, Michael, George and the rest of the scare-mongers, these two discredited components are among the most totemic in the AGW religion.
Gerald Warner (March 16)
Unhappily for Al, Phil, Michael, George and the rest of the scare-mongers, these two discredited components are among the most totemic in the AGW religion.
Gerald Warner (March 16)
❖ US Anglicans to convert to Rome en masse
They will worship according to Anglican rubrics but they will be in communion with the Pope.
Catholic Herald (March 16)
They will worship according to Anglican rubrics but they will be in communion with the Pope.
Catholic Herald (March 16)
❖ Atheism is doomed: the contraceptive Pill is secularism’s cyanide tablet
Evangelical Christians now account for two thirds of white American Protestants, while the ultra-Orthodox account for 17 per cent of British Jewry, but 75 per cent of children.
Ed West (March 16)
Evangelical Christians now account for two thirds of white American Protestants, while the ultra-Orthodox account for 17 per cent of British Jewry, but 75 per cent of children.
Ed West (March 16)
❖ Canadian Anglican Church move toward Rome part of ‘worldwide movement,’ says bishop
Leaders of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) in Canada have sent a letter to the Holy Father formally requesting to become unified with the Catholic Church.
CAN Daily News (March 16)
Leaders of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) in Canada have sent a letter to the Holy Father formally requesting to become unified with the Catholic Church.
CAN Daily News (March 16)
❖ Get a free abortion on the NHS: Polish women advised to travel to Britain for treatment
The poster campaign by a pro-abortion group claims that it is cheaper to fly to the UK and pay for accommodation than to get an underground termination in Poland.
Daily Mail (March 15)
The poster campaign by a pro-abortion group claims that it is cheaper to fly to the UK and pay for accommodation than to get an underground termination in Poland.
Daily Mail (March 15)
❖ Labour unveils radical plans to scrap 700-year-old House of Lords for elected ‘senate’
The numbers of Lords would be dramatically culled to 300 – less than half the existing 746, under the Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s election proposal.
Daily Mail (March 15)
The numbers of Lords would be dramatically culled to 300 – less than half the existing 746, under the Justice Secretary Jack Straw’s election proposal.
Daily Mail (March 15)
❖ ObamaCare Endorsed by the Religious Left
The expression “useful idiots” rings a bell here, although it remains to be seen exactly how useful these particular idiots will be.
American Spectator (March 14)
Related to this story: Story in NCR Online: Pro-life group urges Congress to pass Senate health care bill; Jill Stanek’s Pro-life blog
The expression “useful idiots” rings a bell here, although it remains to be seen exactly how useful these particular idiots will be.
American Spectator (March 14)
Related to this story: Story in NCR Online: Pro-life group urges Congress to pass Senate health care bill; Jill Stanek’s Pro-life blog
❖ Dems to Stupak: More Abortions = Fewer Babies = Lower Gov’t Costs
Stupak called the revelations “a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”
American Spectator (March 14)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
Stupak called the revelations “a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”
American Spectator (March 14)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
❖ Living Together Hurts Chances for Lasting Marriage (Video)
Couples who live together before marriage without any commitment like engagement, hurt their chances of a having a long lasting marriage.
CBN (March 14)
Couples who live together before marriage without any commitment like engagement, hurt their chances of a having a long lasting marriage.
CBN (March 14)
❖ Catholic fury over The Times’s coverage of Pope Benedict XVI
There is international outrage in Catholic circles over a headline in The Times this morning that many people regard as utterly misleading.
Damian Thompson (March 14)
There is international outrage in Catholic circles over a headline in The Times this morning that many people regard as utterly misleading.
Damian Thompson (March 14)
❖ David Cameron is selling a new Tory brand - but I’m not buying it yet
After years of modernisation, the Tories have still to convince enough of us that they should be given power.
Janet Daley (March 14)
After years of modernisation, the Tories have still to convince enough of us that they should be given power.
Janet Daley (March 14)
❖ In pictures: Hadrian’s Wall lights up to mark 1600th anniversay of the end of Roman rule
The event recreated the lights that once shone from the imposing Roman turrets and mini-castles which were regularly stationed along the length of the wall.
Daily Mail (March 14)
Related to this story: Telegraph: story + video
The event recreated the lights that once shone from the imposing Roman turrets and mini-castles which were regularly stationed along the length of the wall.
Daily Mail (March 14)
Related to this story: Telegraph: story + video
❖ More cracks in the eurozone despite likely deal for Greece
The deal is just a thin veneer over permanent disagreements about how to run the European Union, which will further distance it from the bloc’s 500 million citizens.
Telegraph (March 14)
The deal is just a thin veneer over permanent disagreements about how to run the European Union, which will further distance it from the bloc’s 500 million citizens.
Telegraph (March 14)
❖ Private schools attack Government interference
Independent schools will launch an attack this week on Government interference in how they are run and what they teach.
Telegraph (March 14)
Independent schools will launch an attack this week on Government interference in how they are run and what they teach.
Telegraph (March 14)
❖ Apollo astronauts dismay at axing of Nasa mission to return mankind to the Moon
Former Apollo astronauts have expressed dismay at President Barack Obama’s decision to cancel the Nasa programme that was intended to return mankind to the Moon.
Telegraph (March 14)
Former Apollo astronauts have expressed dismay at President Barack Obama’s decision to cancel the Nasa programme that was intended to return mankind to the Moon.
Telegraph (March 14)
❖ To bail or not to bail – the Greek question
Business accepts that in recessionary times you may need to cut costs by 10% or 20% to survive. You just get on and do it.
John Redwood MP (March 13)
Business accepts that in recessionary times you may need to cut costs by 10% or 20% to survive. You just get on and do it.
John Redwood MP (March 13)
❖ Priests ought to focus on sin, not climate change
The worst way to ‘connect’ with parishioners is to offer secular fads, says Dominic Scarborough.
Catholic Herald (March 13)
The worst way to ‘connect’ with parishioners is to offer secular fads, says Dominic Scarborough.
Catholic Herald (March 13)
❖ Homeschooling to be Criminalized in Sweden
The government of Sweden is taking a hard line against homeschoolers, proposing a bill that will only allow home education under “extraordinary circumstances”.
LifeSiteNews (March 13)
The government of Sweden is taking a hard line against homeschoolers, proposing a bill that will only allow home education under “extraordinary circumstances”.
LifeSiteNews (March 13)
❖ New York restaurants face salt ban in new health bill... causing chefs’ blood pressure to soar
Politicians are voting on a bill that, if passed, would see restaurateurs fined $1,000 (£660) each time they were caught adding the condiment to food.
Daily Mail (March 13)
Politicians are voting on a bill that, if passed, would see restaurateurs fined $1,000 (£660) each time they were caught adding the condiment to food.
Daily Mail (March 13)
❖ Stupak A Definite “No,” But Says Other Pro-Life Dems Are Caving
Democrats have been telling him, “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more.”
American Spectator (March 12)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
Democrats have been telling him, “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more.”
American Spectator (March 12)
Related to this story: Extracts from the Church Fathers on Abortion
❖ Bailing out the banks was a disastrous mistake
If you haven’t seen it, have a look at Simon Jenkins’ devastating critique of the bank bail-outs in today’s Guardian.
Daniel Hannan MEP (March 12)
If you haven’t seen it, have a look at Simon Jenkins’ devastating critique of the bank bail-outs in today’s Guardian.
Daniel Hannan MEP (March 12)
❖ Barack Obama’s approval rating drops to 46 per cent
President Barack Obama yesterday delayed a trip to Asia amid falling approval ratings and grave doubts that his 11th hour attempt to push health care reform through Congress will succeed.
Telegraph (March 12)
President Barack Obama yesterday delayed a trip to Asia amid falling approval ratings and grave doubts that his 11th hour attempt to push health care reform through Congress will succeed.
Telegraph (March 12)
❖ Vatican calls on priests to limit sermons to eight minutes
The Vatican has called for priests to cater to congregations’ dwindling attention spans.
Telegraph (March 12)
Related to this story: George Herbert (1593-1633) on how a Preacher should gain the attention of a country congregation
The Vatican has called for priests to cater to congregations’ dwindling attention spans.
Telegraph (March 12)
Related to this story: George Herbert (1593-1633) on how a Preacher should gain the attention of a country congregation
❖ Has the US gun lobby shot itself in the foot by unintentionally undermining states’ rights?
If Supreme Court justices breathe new life into the P & I clause, guns would be restored to Chicago citizens at the cost of a heavy erosion of states’ rights
Gerald Warner (March 12)
If Supreme Court justices breathe new life into the P & I clause, guns would be restored to Chicago citizens at the cost of a heavy erosion of states’ rights
Gerald Warner (March 12)
❖ Why men are the hidden heroes of housework: Research shows they do 13 hours of chores a week (women just don’t notice)
According to research, the average British male is toiling harder than ever at home.
Daily Mail (March 12)
Related to this story: Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667): The Duties And Rights Of Man And Wife Are Exactly The Same
According to research, the average British male is toiling harder than ever at home.
Daily Mail (March 12)
Related to this story: Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667): The Duties And Rights Of Man And Wife Are Exactly The Same
Sky News Headlines
UNDOUBTEDLY we all see situations and circumstances that upset us a great deal. We all see poverty, we see children being maltreated, we see pollution and bad conditions in inner cities. It is in the answer to those problems where we differ. Those on the socialist side say they can be met only by increased state action. We say that the powers of government are limited, and that many needs can be met in considerable measure by private action and the acceptance of personal responsibility. We know that if the state does everything for you, it can only do so by taking everything away from you.
Margaret Thatcher (1925-) (Religion & Liberty 2:4 (1992))
