The Holy Innocents Tomorrow: Thomas Becket, archbishop, martyr, 1170 1. News from CofE Appointment of Third Church Estates Commissioner The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has announced the appointment of Mr Andrew Mackie to serve as Third Church Estates Commissioner in succession to Timothy Walker. http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2012/appointment-of-third-church-estates-commissioner.aspx
2. Today's press coverage Times p2 Leader "Just War" with comment on "Politicians had a surer sense than the bishops of morality in the Falklands conflict" http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/leaders/article3641812.ece
Times p27 Comment "End this failed marriage of Church and State"
Telegraph p4 (plus Daily news brief p20) News report "Dean planned Lord's prayer in Spanish" with ref to archives released on Falklands War http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9767891/Queen-asked-to-intervene-over-Falklands-Memorial-Service.html
Independent p12 Comment "Churches' hostility to gay marriage only underlines their impotence" http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/churches-hostility-to-gay-marriage-only-underlines-their-impotence-8432092.html?origin=internalSearch
Times p16 News report "Chief Rabbi calls for charity spirit" http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3641906.ece
Independent p5 News report "Tories warn PM that he's splitting party, as leadership speculation mounts" with ref to CofE and gay marriage http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-warn-pm-that-hes-splitting-his-party-over-gay-marriage-as-leadership-speculation-mounts-8432290.html?origin=internalSearch
Daily Mail p29 News report "Dawkins branded a fundamentalist by expert behind the 'God particle'" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2253640/Battle-professors-Richard-Dawkins-branded-fundamentalist-expert-God-particle.html
Times p39 News report "Resting place of Protestant 'renegades' is 300-year-old gift of religious tolerance" with ref to the Protestant cemetery in Rome http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3641906.ece
Wall Street Journal (Europe) p5 News report "Greek Church called upon to do more" Letters Telegraph p23 "Defending all the faiths" from various with ref to CofE comment in yesterday's news story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9768121/Urban-dwellers-have-no-right-to-set-hunting-policy-for-rural-minority.html
Ends Newspaper Web links with most or all stories - Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Daily Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk
FT http://www.ft.com
Guardian http://guardian.co.uk
Independent titles http://www.independent.co.uk
Observer http://www.observer.co.uk
People http://www.people.co.uk
Sun http://www.the-sun.co.uk
Sunday Mirror http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk
Sunday Times http://www.sunday-times.co.uk
Telegraph titles http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk
With some stories
Daily Express http://www.express.co.uk
Daily Star http://www.dailystar.co.uk
Ev Standard http://www.standard.co.uk
Church press
Baptist Times http://www.baptist.org.uk/btnews.htm
Catholic Herald http://www.catholicherald.co.uk
CEN http://www.churchnewspaper.com
Church Times http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/front.asp
Methodist Recorder http://www.methodistrecorder.co.uk/index.htm
Tablet http://www.thetablet.co.uk
Other links
Ananova http://www.ananova.com
BBC http://bbc.co.uk
Channel 4 http://www.channel4.com
Private Eye http://www.private-eye.co.uk
Reuters http://www.reuters.co.uk
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