23 October 2012
Daily Briefing for Tuesday 23rd October 2012
Church of England website:
http://www.churchofengland.org
Issued at 08.35 by NC
Feria
Tomorrow: Feria
1. Love Life Live Lent to keep 2012 Games feel-good
flame burning.
A campaign encouraging people to harness the 2012 Games spirit of
goodwill has been launched this week - the call to action contained
within a 'sampler' booklet being posted out to 20,000 Church of
England clergy around the country. 2. Today's
press coverage
Times p39
Reports that a private equity firm, Permira, has bought family tree
search company ancestry.co.uk for $1.6billion. Ancestry has "spent
millions of dollars … digitizing records ranging from the CofE
parish registers to US Census files".
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/media/article357643
5.ece
Mail p4, Tel p12
Reports that a group of "senior" doctors have "condemned the
controversial Liverpool Care Pathway as a medical treatment that
hastens the death of patients". According to reports "sedatives are
used to deprive patients of consciousness and that the withdrawal
of fluids … self-evidently speeds dying".
I p14
Editorial on Free speech by Amol Rajan in which he states "being
adult means putting up with things you don't like, such as
Christians who want to stop gays being married".
No online link
Sun p15, WSJ p2, BBC News online
Reports that the Pope created 7 new saints yesterday including the
first Native American.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19996957
Sun, WSJ no online link
Mail p17
Richard Littlejohn column notes that, "The
CofE announced yesterday that it is to embrace 'Posh and Becks'
style weddings". (A reference to press coverage of the Weddings
Handbook?)
Letters
Tel p25 Sarah Dale, Lynda Moore
The Scouts should be open to atheists as well
No online link
Ends