Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark offered prayers for the victims and survivors of the June 3 attack that claimed 7 lives and injured 48 people.
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Life after Brexit should top list of election issues, bishops say
The bishops of England and Wales have put the post-Brexit future of the United Kingdom at the top of a list of priority issues for Catholic voters to consider.
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Belgian Brothers to allow euthanasia in psychiatric care centers
The Brothers of Charity Group stated that it would allow doctors to perform euthanasia in any of its 15 centers, which provide care to more than 5,000 patients a year, subject to carefully stipulated criteria.
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Cardinal apologizes for church forcing mothers to give up babies
Over three decades 500,000 British women were encouraged to give up their babies for adoption.
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Catholic church in England and Wales join government on Syrian refugee project
A parish in the Diocese of Salford will be the first to welcome a family from a refugee camp in the Middle East as part of a sponsorship plan.
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Eight Scottish bishops call for end to Trident submarine-based nuclear weapons system
Bishops argue that use of the Trident weapons would result in massive and indiscriminate loss of human life.
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Bishop says ‘Brexit’ could lead to loss of funds for aid agencies
Polls show a small majority of British voters are ready to leave the EU.
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Cardinal welcomes Britain’s U-turn on resettling child refugees
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster has welcomed a U-turn by the British government over the resettlement of child refugees.He said he was "very happy" with a May 4 announcement by Prime Minister David Cameron that the U.K. will accept an unspecified number of unaccompanied children wh
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Cardinal: Catholics must protest migration policies when children are at risk
“A voice of protest is needed,” especially when the lives of children were at stake.
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Archbishop finds visiting children injured in bombing ‘truly difficult’
“I visited every bedside and every victim, of whatever faith. It was truly difficult because I saw so many children…who had been wounded or killed by this terrible attack.”