Feeling flush? Give a toilet on World Toilet Day

by | Nov 19, 2007

Every year 19th November is World Toilet Day. World Toilet Day falls on the day in 1792 when the Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals was patented. But campaigners say it also a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise...

Should religious dress and symbols be banned at work?

by | Nov 19, 2007

So here we go again. There was the ‘silver ring’ case of a girl barred by her school from wearing a piece of jewellery which turned out to be more a campaign symbol than an essential expression of faith. Her parents lost her case, but are appealing. There...

Struggle, surprise and sainthood

by | Nov 18, 2007

Time rushes by so fast at this time of year, what with Christmas looming on the horizon, that it would be easy to overlook two strange yet significant days earlier this month (November 2007). For Christians in the Catholic tradition, especially (but not only, I shall...