Front of today’s Daily Telegraph
St Patrick had a wife, and her name was Sheelah
Accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries suggest Ireland’s patron saint was married
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/st-patrick-had-a-wife-and-her-name-was-sheelah-1.3013056
St Patrick’s Cross delayed after remains found
Remains are found at Down Cathedral by contractors working to erect a replica St Patrick’s Cross.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43425481
Russia expels 23 British diplomats after UK response to spy poisoning
It would also halt activities of the British Council across the country, the foreign ministry said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43440992
http://www.thejournal.ie/russia-expels-23-diplomats-spy-poisoning-3909587-Mar2018/
BBC News: Newspaper headlines: Russian exile killed and high-rise attack fear
The news that police are treating the death of businessman Nikolai Glushkov as murder leads several papers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-43438610
US President Donald Trump could visit the border after he confirmed he would travel to Ireland
http://www.irishnews.com/news/republicofirelandnews/2018/03/15/news/invitation-for-trump-to-visit-ireland-still-stands-says-taoiseach-1278855/?utm_
Karen Bradley says lack of devolution is costing NI jobs
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43437190
Fr Seamus Reid connected to sex abuse at St Colman’s
A second priest is claimed to have sexually assaulted pupils at a school in Newry during the 1960s.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43428021
Four County Down schools could merge
New proposals reveal four post-primary schools in County Down may merge.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-43425482
Sinn Féin has insisted all its assembly members make a voluntary donation to the party after it emerged no payments were recorded for half of its MLAs during the second half of 2017.
http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/03/15/news/sinn-fe-in-insists-all-its-mlas-make-voluntary-donation-to-party-1279892/?utm_
Irish-born religious recalls leaving homeland to devote lives to US kids
Sr. Fabian Quigley, a member of the Sisters of the Incarnate Word, stands before an American flag at Assumption Academy in Broadview Heights, Ohio, where she works part time. The Irish-born sister came to the U.S. in 1949 as a 15-year-old postulant, arriving in Cleveland. Quigley became a U.S. …
http://globalsistersreport.org/news/ministry/irish-born-religious-recall-leaving-homeland-devote-lives-us-kids-52591
Dagger John: the bishop who built Irish America
He couldn’t have known that by the end of the century the ugliness of the Civil War-era riots would be forgotten, Catholicism would be the country’s largest religious denomination, and Irish Americans would occupy a secure place in the halls of power. He certainly couldn’t imagine that his adopted … https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/dagger-john-the-bishop-who-built-irish-america-1.3425444
Wide coverage of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s interview with ITV news. Reports focus on the Archbishop’s comments on the baptism and confirmation of Meghan Markle recently and her forthcoming marriage to Prince Harry. The Times quotes the Archbishop on the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. ITV and Mail cover the Archbishop’s comments on the poison attack in Salisbury.
https://www.itv.com/news/2018-03-16/archbishop-of-canterbury-on-meghan-markles-moving-baptism-and-preparing-for-the-royal-wedding/
https://www.itv.com/news/2018-03-16/archbishop-justin-welby-russia-spy-chemical-weapons-harry-meghan-austerity/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5831375/meghan-markle-baptism-archbishop-of-canterbury-justin-welby/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/welby-admits-nerves-as-harry-and-meghan-wedding-nears-9vj5zjl5t
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/16/justin-welby-marrying-prince-
Video of the Archbishop of Canterbury speaking about social inequality in Britain today.
https://news.sky.com/video/archbishop-of-canterbury-speaks-on-inequality-11292051
Report on statement from former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey read at the current IICSA hearings into the Church of England
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/23-march/news/uk/i-dont-recall-hearing-about-chichester-s-problems-lord-carey-tells-iicsa
Items on the appointment of Jill Duff as the next Bishop of Lancaster along with coverage of the testimony of Lord Williams of Oystermouth to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. George Pitcher, Lord Williams’s former press secretary’s recent social media posts are also quoted.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/news-jill-duff-named-bishop-bdwgwn063
News piece about a meeting earlier this week between health and equalities minister Jackie Doyle-Price, Second Church Estates Commissioner, Caroline Spelman and Ben Bradshaw MP in which it says they discussed possible legislation to prevent gay conversion therapy.
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/ministers-look-at-laws-to-eradicate-gay-cure-programmes-after-church-calls-for-ban/127527.htm
Review of BBC TV’s “Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago”, in which a diverse group of pilgrims including an actor, singer, journalist and priest, Kate Bottley, walk the Camino Way.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2018/03/16/pilgrimage-road-santiago-review-group-celebrities-hike-became/
Opinion
A blog by the Archbishop of Canterbury on why the Church and Christians should speak out about injustices in society.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/justin-welby-politics_uk_5aabed59e4b05b2217fe6f73?utm_hp_ref=uk-news
Charles Moore on the allegations of abuse by John Smyth at holiday camps run by the Titus Trust in the 1980s. The article focuses on the long lasting impact of abuse on survivor, Andy Morse.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/16/abuse-perpetrated-cloak-religion-sets-trap-lasts-lifetime/
Lambeth Conference 2020 theme unveiled
The theme for the Lambeth Conference in 2020 is to be “God’s Church for God’s World: walking, listening and witnessing together”. Details have been announced on a new webpage which went live this week. A more detailed website is being designed and will go live later this year.
http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2018/03/lambeth-conference-2020-theme-unveiled.aspx
Anglican Churches bring “unheard voices of women” to inter-governmental meeting
Leaders of 53 countries in the Commonwealth will benefit from the wisdom of “unheard voices of women”, thanks to the contribution of Anglican Churches.
The Commonwealth Secretariat held a media briefing on Wednesday ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which will take place in London and in the grounds of Windsor Castle from 16-20 April. The formal CHOGM gathering will take place on Thursday and Friday (19-20 April). The first part of the week (16-18 April) will be taken up by four themed forums.
http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2018/03/anglican-churches-bring-unheard-voices-of-women-to-inter-governmental-meeting.aspx
UN agencies, NGOs, and WCC join at UN to end violence against children
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/un-agencies-ngos-and-wcc-join-at-un-to-end-violence-against-children
Representatives of UN agencies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have spoken of how religious communities and churches can play a key part in ending violence in early childhood.
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/sending-service-closes-arusha-conference
“Sending service” closes Arusha conference
The Conference on World Mission and Evangelism officially closed with a “sending service” during which participants reflected on their call to discipleship and the significance of such a call in transforming mission in a world of pain, dislocation and turmoil.
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/sending-service-closes-arusha-conference
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/arusha-call-to-discipleship-issued
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