World can draw inspiration from pope, says President Higgins
See also report in today’s Morning post on CNI
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/world-can-draw-inspiration-from-pope-says-president-higgins-1.3441204
Ian Paisley invites US President Donald Trump to visit Northern Ireland
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/ian-paisley-invites-us-president-donald-trump-to-visit-northern-ireland-36747053.html
Dublin World Meeting of Families shows no tolerance of LGBTI+
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/dublin-world-meeting-of-families-shows-no-tolerance-of-lgbti-1.3440902
RHI was too complex to be run from Northern Ireland, inquiry hears
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/rhi-scandal/rhi-was-too-complex-to-be-run-from-northern-ireland-inquiry-hears-36738636.html
RHI official’s Arlene Foster cost control assumption ‘incorrect’
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43513872
Hilda Coles – An Appreciation
Irish Times: Her calligraphy may be seen all around Ireland and Nuneaton, and her illuminated book plates are the pride and joy of family members and were executed with great skill and devotion to detail. She designed the wooden altar rails in the chapel of St Laurence O’Toole in Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral …
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/hilda-coles-an-appreciation-1.3433858
Scouts pay out £42,000 over 11-year-old’s autism claim
The family of a boy aged 11 say he was discriminated against and excluded from certain activities.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43519296
Why Russian Protestants Voted for President Putin
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/march/russia-protestants-president-putin-election.html
Pope Francis hits out at those who ‘twist’ the truth
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/8786/pope-francis-hits-out-at-those-who-twist-the-truth#.WrjNS0eWBbM.twitter
Genesis Foundation to present first ever concert live-streaming from the Sistine Chapel
http://www.genesisfoundation.org.uk/news/genesis-foundation-to-present-first-ever-concert-live-streaming-from-the-sistine-chapel/
Bishop, priests in Brazil ‘caught hiding cash in massive church embezzlement scandal’
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/bishop-priests-in-brazil-caught-hiding-cash-in-massive-church-embezzlement-scandal/127838.htm
Archbishop Oscar Romero was gunned down inside his own church 38 years ago.
Soon he’ll become El Salvador’s first saint
https://www.religionnews.com/2018/03/24/archbishop-oscar-romero-was-gunned-down-inside-his-own-church-38-years-ago-soon-hell-become-el-salvadors-first-saint/
Picasso: The atheist obsessed with the Crucifixion
http://www.catholicherald.co.ukwww.catholicherald.co.uk/issues/march-23rd-2018/picasso-the-atheist-obsessed-with-the-crucifixion/
Interview with David Suchet on his new podcast, Questions of Faith. The article mentions that he was raised without a religion, but became an Anglican after having had a ‘piercing moment of religious revelation’ while looking through a Bible in a hotel room, shortly after his 40th birthday.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/david-suchet-interview-can-understand-trump-imposed-anti-muslim/
Interview with the Bishop of Salisbury, Nicholas Holtam, on Holy Week in the city in the aftermath of the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
https://www.premier.org.uk/News/UK/Bishop-of-Salisbury-hopes-for-unity-during-Holy-Week-in-aftermath-of-spy-poisoning
Report on Palm Sunday at Ripon Cathedral
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/ripon-cathedral-marks-palm-sunday-with-traditional-blessing-and-donkey-led-procession-1-9082413
Further report that the Archbishop of Wales, John Davies, has warned that the Church in Wales may have to argue that better public services require people to pay a ‘bit more tax’. The report is based on an interview with BBC Sunday Politics Wales programme.
https://www.christiantoday.com/uk/archbishop-of-wales-people-may-have-to-pay-more-tax-for-better-public-services/127825.htm
Article on Easter date
http://www.theweek.co.uk/92052/easter-when-it-is-and-how-its-celebrated
Report on new online portal for Exeter Cathedral.
http://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/03/26/exeter-cathedral-spreads-its-message-online-with-new-portal
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