St Mary’s Weekly News 19th July 2020

July 16, 2020 in news, Newsletters

Three cathedrals open as vaccination centres
BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL opened its crypt as a vaccinations centre today, joining Salisbury and Lichfield, who opened at the weekend. Blackburn has a six-month booking which could possibly extend to a year. Like the other two cathedrals, it had been di...
Funeral directors speak of physical and mental exhaustion
FUNERAL directors in the UK have spoken of the “heartbreak” of watching hundreds of mourners grieve alone, and of their own physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion under an unprecedented workload, as deaths from the coronavirus continue to rise...
UK is urged to sign UN nuclear-weapons treaty
CAMPAIGNERS are urging the UK to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which will come into effect on 22 January. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, with more than 30 Church of England bishops, called on the Go...
Parliament, not the PM alone, needs control over response to pandemic, says bishop
DECISIONS about how to respond to the pandemic should be made by Parliament, not by the Prime Minister alone, the Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, said this week. Its exclusion from decision-making was “what dictators do”. Interviewed for the C...