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Dress me Father for I have sinned !
- Written by: Alex Walker
An online interactive learning tool developed to help primary school pupils in Religious Education lessons has led to a significant rise in the number of hits on the Catholic Church's priesthood website for England and Wales. However, it has been revealed that many of those visiting the webpage are not the intended audience.
New centre to support priests and religious
- Written by: Alex Walker
A new therapeutic and educational centre for Catholic priests and religious in Britain and Ireland has been opened.
Confessions of Father Flash
- Written by: Alex Walker
Focus: Confessions of Father Flash A Catholic priest makes a cousin pregnant and no one turns a hair. Just 10 years ago it would have rocked the Church. A new era of tolerance or indifference? By Kenny Farquharson and Gayle Ritchie
Ampleforth abuse
- Written by: Alex Walker
Catholic school faces series of lawsuits over sexual abuse
Claims follow admissions by three monks of assaults on pupils over 30 years
Ian Cobain
Saturday November 19, 2005
The Guardian
Ampleforth College, the country's most celebrated Roman Catholic public school, is facing a series of lawsuits after it emerged that dozens of boys were sexually abused there over a 30-year period.
Celibacy and the priesthood
- Written by: Alex Walker
BECAUSE OF THE chronic shortage of vocations to the priesthood, even some flourishing Catholic parishes in Britain are likely to be told in the future that they must manage henceforth without a priest. They may have to become outposts of neighbouring parishes. They may have to confine their eucharistic worship to the distribution of Communion already consecrated. They may continue to exist as lay-led communities, with their sacramental life maintained by itinerant Mass-sayers with six or more services to conduct during the course of a weekend. Or their church may simply close.