Photo – Chris Whitty the Chief Medical Officer for England and the UK government’s Chief Medical Adviser.
See his qualifications for the post announced in June 2019 when he was appointed…including…Professor of Public and International Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a practising NHS Consultant Physician in acute medicine and infectious diseases at University College London Hospitals, and Gresham Professor of Physic.
[[] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-chief-medical-officer-appointed ]
Small numbers at Sunday Masses and services, with most live-streamed
The Irish Times
As in many churches elsewhere in Ireland, the pews were empty with the Mass live-streamed to people at home.
[[] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/small-numbers-at-sunday-masses-and-services-with-most-live-streamed-1.4203645 ]
Coronavirus: NI ‘school closures will last for at least 16 weeks’
BBC News
On Saturday, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood also called for schools to close, after Archibishop Eamon Martin, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland …
[[] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51881805 ]
Coronavirus: Undertakers’ dilemma over restrictions on funerals
Belfast Telegraph
However, the Church of Ireland and Presbyterian Church are abiding by the restrictions in the Republic. Sean Carr, an undertaker in Londonderry, …
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-undertakers-dilemma-over-restrictions-on-funerals-39043411.html ]
Twice as many catholic children than protestants in Northern Ireland’s Woodlands Juvenile Justice Centre
Sunday Life
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/twice-as-many-catholic-children-than-protestants-incarcerated-at-northern-irelands-woodlands-juvenile-justice-centre-39045002.html ]
Church complains that visa problems are hitting ministry in Ireland
The Times
The Catholic Church in Ireland has told the Department of Justice it is experiencing “much difficulty” in securing visas for priests and nuns coming to …
[[] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/church-complains-that-visa-problems-are-hitting-ministry-in-ireland-pc57c2qz6 ]
Comment – Christopher Howse on the Eucharist
Daily Telegraph
[[] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/03/14/sacred-mysteriesthe-extreme-opposite-social-distancing/ ]
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