St Mary’s Weekly Newsletter Christmas and New Year 2020

December 17, 2020 in Newsletters

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...
‘It’s such a privilege to do this’ — minister in Oxford administers Covid vaccine
A NON-STIPENDIARY minister in Oxford diocese has described her pleasure at being able to carry out Covid-19 vaccinations. An assistant curate of St Luke’s, Maidenhead, the Revd Phyllis Sopp, who was ordained deacon at Michaelmas, undertook the Oxf...