February 18, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI’s state visit to Glasgow and Edinburgh cost the Scottish Government over £800,000, writes Alison Campsie. The amount of taxpayers’ money spent by Holyrood on the occasion amounts to almost £85,000 per hour of the Pontiff’s stop-off in
February 4, 2011
The head of a Scottish Catholic aid charity has said he is "unhappy" about a decision to fund the Pope’s UK visit with cash intended to help the poor in the world’s poverty-stricken nations. Paul Chitnis, chief executive of the
February 3, 2011
Money intended to alleviate poverty in the world’s poorest countries was used to help fund the Pope’s visit to the UK, MPs have revealed. The government is facing a storm of criticism after it emerged that it raided the international
January 27, 2011
Three SFA staff who were sacked over the Pope email row returned to their jobs yesterday. The trio were among five workers – including referees’ chief Hugh Dallas – axed for allegedly forwarding a joke about the Catholic Church child
January 12, 2011
Results of a new survey suggest that the different Christian denominations in the UK were brought closer together by the visit of Pope Benedict last September. The study, which was commissioned by Premier Media Group, sampled Christians across all denominations.
November 27, 2010
Head of referee development Hugh Dallas has been sacked by the Scottish Football Association after being accused of sending a tasteless e-mail. The former World Cup referee was the subject of an internal disciplinary hearing on Thursday evening. SFA chief
October 29, 2010
It was hailed as the most important spiritual visit to Scotland since the Reformation – but it has come at a cost. Scottish Catholics will be told this weekend that they have to make up an £800,000 cash shortfall for
October 28, 2010
An "almighty row" blew up behind the scenes over the music for the Papal Mass at Bellahouston Park last month, a Scots composer claimed yesterday. James MacMillan, widely hailed as the leading Scottish classical composer of his generation, told how
October 27, 2010
Writing music for the recent visit of the Pope to the UK was one of the most exhilarating but strangest experiences of my life, writes James MacMillan. I was initially contacted by Archbishop Mario Conti, on behalf of the Scottish
October 26, 2010
The Times’s paywall is mysteriously down, writes Damian Thompson, so I nipped behind it and found a blog post from my former colleague the Rev George Pitcher, now the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Secretary for Public Affairs. Writes George: I confess
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