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Anti-sectarian lessons offered The Church in Scotland will offer some of the country’s Premier League football clubs lessons in anti-sectarianism. The move follows the sacking of Hugh Dallas, head of referee development for the Scottish Football Association and four other SFA officials accused of circulating a tasteless email about the Pope on the day of his visit to Scotland in September. This week, it was reported that Mr Dallas is to appeal against his dismissal.


CES seeks assurances on abortion The Catholic Education Service (CES) is to lobby the Government to ensure pro- posals to increase young people’s access to “health services” will not mean Catholic schools have to promote abortion. A Department of Health White Paper, “Healthy Lives, Healthy People”, sets out a strategy for public health. The CES wel- comed aspects of the proposals such as the intention to eradicate child poverty.


Perthshire bishop retires Bishop Vincent Logan of Dunkeld is to step down after almost 30 years in office. Bishop Logan, 69, offered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI on health grounds. He said: “I deeply regret having to make this decision, but I have no choice. My health means I am no longer able to give 100 per cent and I feel the Church deserves no less.”


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Migrant Polish priests must spend six months in parishes


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POLISH PRIESTS coming to minister in England and Wales will have to spend an initial half-year working in English parishes, accord- ing to a proposed agreement between the two country’s Bishops’ Conferences. The agree- ment also requires English parishes to share their churches with Polish communities. Bishop William Kenney, a member of the


bilateral working group set up in March 2008, said: “The Church works differently, quite rightly, in each country – this new agreement will help Polish priests get used to how the Church works here and also improve their English.” He added: “We would obviously prefer churches to be shared more widely, and we definitely want the Polish Masses to take place on Catholic premises under a formalised agreement”.


■Catholic-affiliated colleges this week rejected a claim that their future is at risk due to planned cuts in government spending on higher education and increased tuition fees, writes Sam Adams.


Newman University College in Birmingham is listed


In the past, training courses have been


offered to Polish priests coming to work in Britain. Bishop Wojciech Polak, the Polish Church’s delegate for migrant pastoral work, told his country’s Catholic information agency, KAI, after the latest meeting of the working group in Warsaw that: “The British bishops are open to the idea that, where English clergy are lacking, a priest from Poland will exercise care over the English community, as well as the Polish community, in the parish.” He added that the new rules were


expected to come into force from next September. At least a million Poles came to Britain after their country joined the European Union in May 2004, mostly in search of jobs and opportunities. Around a tenth of them attend Masses via a London- based Polish Catholic Mission, whose 110 priests run 86 parishes.


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