Good Morning from the Church of England Communications Office

James Hannington, bishop, martyr, 1885

 

1. Towards a new diocese for West Yorkshire and the Dales

Dioceses Commission announces details of draft scheme
The Dioceses Commission has today released details of its draft scheme to reorganise Church of England structures in West Yorkshire and the Dales. The overall proposal, approved last month, is to replace the existing three dioceses and create a new single one. Today's report explains in more detail how, if approved, that would work. http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2012/10/towards-a-new-diocese-for-west-yorkshire-and-the-dales.aspx

2. Agenda for November 2012 General Synod

The General Synod of the Church of England meets in November for a three day meeting to discuss final stages of women bishops' legislation, with an agenda that also includes the Anglican Communion, the Living Wage and youth unemployment. For further information, see end of briefing or go to: http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2012/10/agenda-for-november-2012-general-synod.aspx

 

3. Today's press coverage
Times p18

Reports of comments by the Bishop of Durham, the Rt Revd Justin Welby "comparing the devastated state of the banking industry after the financial crash to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral after it was bombed in the war".

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3582543.ece

 

Times p25

Comment article from Tim Montgomerie suggesting that "the New Archbishop (of Canterbury) must get back to basics".

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article3582463.ece

 

Tel p23

Comment from Charles Moore on the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/charlesmoore/9639886/A-small-royal-saga-and-a-blow-to-spirituality.html

 

Tel p27

Comment article on the Liverpool Pathway treatment of the terminally ill

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9635842/Families-left-grieving-and-angry-by-the-Liverpool-Care-Pathway.html

 

Tel p18, Guard p23, Mirror p24, Times, Metro, Ind

Reports that eight people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attach on a church in Nigeria

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/916245-nigeria-suicide-car-bombing-kills-seven-in-catholic-church

Telegrapgh p18

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/28/nigeria-suicide-bomber-catholic-church

 

 

4. Top Weekend Stories

Sunday
Sunday Telegraph p3
News report "Bishop says banks are beyond repair" with ref to Bishop of Durham

Sunday Telegraph p2
"Barclays knows action must follow warm words"- interview with Barclays boss with ref to comments by Bishop of Durham
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9638194/Barclays-knows-action-must-follow-warm-words.html

Mail on Sunday p31
"Enter a church and you should hear echoes of eternity - not the Sugababes" comment from Peter Hitchens which begins "I think the Church of England has just committed suicde".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2224255/Enter-church-hear-echoes-eternity--Sugababes.html

Sunday Times p33
News report "Evangelists spread the word of Mitt"

Mail on Sunday p46

News report "King Richard III to get cathedral burial" with ref to Leicester Cathedral

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224256/King-Richard-III-cathedral-burial--skeleton-car-park-500-years-death.html

Sunday Telegraph online
News report "People who agree to donate their organs could be given NHS priority" with ref to CofE

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9637922/People-who-agree-to-donate-their-organs-could-be-given-NHS-priority.html

Sunday Express p39
Kirsty Buchanan on "This is the path to death, people" with ref to Liverpool Care Pathway
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/354943/This-is-the-path-to-death-people
Daily Mail p7
News report on Liverpool Care Pathway
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2223836/I-survived-death-pathway-Patricia-82-given-days-live-family-defied-doctors-gave-water-straw--shes-planning-world-cruise.html

Observer p25
News report "Climate change and science are at heart of new theory of history backed by Bill Gates"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/28/big-history-bill-gates-david-christian?INTCMP=SRCH

Letters 
Sunday Telegraph p29 (scroll down link)
Modern marriage from Rev John Jessop Catterick, North Yorkshire
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9637040/Benefit-reform-redeems-an-out-of-touch-Government.html

Saturday

Times p26
News report "Decision time over archbishop"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3581499.ece

Telegraph p1
News report "Savile could be stripped of Papal knighthood"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/9636594/Jimmy-Savile-Catholic-Church-seeks-to-strip-star-of-Papal-knighthood.html

Guardian p43

News comment "The BBC's real crime was to act like the Catholic church"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/26/bbc-jimmy-savile-catholic-church?INTCMP=SRCH

Times p111
News report "Floods leave Lourdes counting the cost"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3581020.ece

Times p110

Credo: Naftali Brewer on "What difference does your company make to the world?"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3581013.ece

 

Guardian p3(Family)
News feature "As a Christian, Rachel Held Evans was intrigued to find out what sort of advice the Bible could offer a wife in a modern relationship"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/oct/27/rachel-held-evans-biblical-womanhood

Times p110
News feature "Remembering the warriors of the modern Church"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3581016.ece

 

Times p51
News report "Custodians of the Sistine Chapel want a ceiling on sweaty visitors"
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article3581503.ece

Daily Telegraph p28 (Review)

"Roger Scruton plays the organ in his local church for Sameer Rahim"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9633229/A-Page-in-the-LIfe-Roger-Scruton.html

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