Jewellers agree to wash dirty gold clean

Campaigners from Catholic aid agency CAFOD have gone to the heart of the country’s gold trade and handed in a symbolic gold paper chain representing nearly 45,000 signatures calling for an end to ‘dirty gold’. At Goldsmiths Hall in London, chair of the...

Leader of House of Commons backs reconsideration of St George

The leader of the House of Commons and former Home and Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw MP, has backed calls for a ‘re-branding’ of England’s patron saint, St George. Writing an article for The Guardian yesterday, Mr Straw acknowledged that the figurehead, whose...

Leader of House of Commons backs reconsideration of St George

The leader of the House of Commons and former Home and Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw MP, has backed calls for a ‘re-branding’ of England’s patron saint, St George. Writing an article for The Guardian yesterday, Mr Straw acknowledged that the figurehead, whose...

Death of leader may signal change in China-Vatican relations

Chinese Catholic Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan of Beijing, who clashed with the Vatican by appointing non-approved bishops has died in Beijing, aged 76 years. “The death of Bishop Fu is a national matter, more than a religious one,” Hong Kong-based Franciscan...

Death of leader may signal change in China-Vatican relations

Chinese Catholic Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan of Beijing, who clashed with the Vatican by appointing non-approved bishops has died in Beijing, aged 76 years. “The death of Bishop Fu is a national matter, more than a religious one,” Hong Kong-based Franciscan...