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| Angels and Demons is little more than “harmless entertainment,” with many factual errors and little cultural value according to the Vatican newspaper. Two dispassionate articles in L’Osservatore Romano may disappoint the film’s promoters, who had sought a conflict with the Vatican of the type that surrounded The Da Vinci Code in 2006. Both films are based on books by author Dan Brown. An editorial in the paper called both the film and the book “modest” and “rather innocuous”. | |
| Entertainment | The Universe– May 2009 |
| The first advert for the morning-after pill to be televised on UK television has been branded defeatist by the pro-life movement. It has also been condemned as an encouragement to greater promiscuity and irresponsible sexual behaviour. In the advert, which is broadcast on Channel 4 and Sky, a woman is shown leaving a man in bed and going to a pharmacy to buy Levonelle One Step. Although it is shown only after the 9pm watershed, critics say it is naive to suggest that young viewers do not watch television after 9pm. | |
| Sex | The Universe– May 2009 |
| A Catholic church in the Potteries is one of several places of worship to receive English Heritage and Heritage Lottery Fund grants worth millions of pounds. The grants package has been made available for essential repairs to Grade II listed places of worship across England. They will help to repair 56 historic places of worship. St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, is an unusual Italianate style building (designed by JS Brocklesby in 1925) which features sanctuary and ceiling panels lavishly decorated with paintings, patterns and symbols. | |
| Church | The Universe– May 2009 |
| Pope Benedict XVI called for the tearing down of the walls that are being built in the Holy Land as a necessary condition for peace. The Pope mentioned two kinds of walls. First, the reinforced concrete ones being built by the Israelis across the Holy Land which partly encircle Bethlehem. Second, those which the pontiff said were even worse – the walls being built in the hearts of Israelis and Palestinians alike as a result of their 60 year old conflict. | |
| World Issues | The Universe– May 2009 |
| Prince Charles has recently warned that the world could be facing a new Dark Age, referring to the ever-encroaching risk of total environmental catastrophe. The Prince discussed the matter with Pope Benedict XVI on his recent visit to the Vatican. | |
| Environment | Third Way– June 2009 |
| A US radio shock jock barred from entering the UK has said he will sue for defamation after his name appeared on a list of the 16 “least wanted”. Michael Savage, who hosts far-right talk show The Savage Nation, called Home Secretary Jackie Smith a “lunatic” and said he was outraged that he had been named alongside hate preachers and a member of Hamas. Smith said she decided to make public the names of the 16 people banned since October so others could better understand what sort of behaviour Britain was not prepared to tolerate. She told BBC Breakfast that Savage was “someone who has fallen into the category of fomenting hatred, of such extreme views and expressing them in such a way that it is actually likely to cause inter-community tension or even violence if the person were allowed into the country”. Savage, real name Michael Wiener, insisted he has never advocated violence. | |
| Media | The Weekly Radio Magazine– May 2009 |
| The Jedi religion seems to have transferred from the world of Star Wars to the real world, first as a prank, now perhaps as something more serious. The idea appears to have originated with viral emails that circulated in several countries taking consensus in 2001. The emails claimed – falsely – that if enough people told census takers their religion was Jedi, the government would be forced to acknowledge it as an official religion. The greatest conversion rate was in England AND Wales where 390,127 (0.27%) reckoned to be Jedis, more than the number of Sikhs. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Third Way– June 2009 |
| PRS For Music, the performing rights agency, has said it will simplify the charges levied against shops, cafes and other public places that need a licence to have the radio on. Chief Executive Steve Porter announced the changes at the PRS general meeting last week, in a bid to reduce the recent negative media coverage about music licensing. Last summer, The Radio Magazine revealed that a number of commercial radio stations had complained to the radio centre about the agencies tactics, listeners said they had been cold-called by the performing rights agencies trying to clamp down on unlicensed workplace listening. | |
| Media | The Weekly Radio Magazine– May 2009 |
| Giving MPs a daily allowance alongside their salaries would help encourage them to turn up for work, Downing Street suggested. The Prime Minister’s spokesman said one of the main advantages of the government’s prioposed “clocking on” system was that politicians would have an “incentive” to attend parliament. The argument was put forward after the UK’s sleaze watchdog insisted there was a “powerful argument” against the plans. | |
| Politics | The Sentinel – 24 April 2009 |
| Music stars have been badly hit by the recession, with the likes of Sir Elton John and Robbie Williams losing around a quarter of their wealth over the past year. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, Williams lost £25 million over the year, to be left with a trifling £80 million. | |
| Entertainment | The Sentinel – 24 April 2009 |
| Parents were warned by a leading cot death charity not to risk their baby’s life by sleeping alongside them. The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths pointed to several reports that a high proportion of babies who died were sharing a bed or sofa with a sleeping parent. The Royal College of Midwives described the advice as “unhelpful” and urged parents to talk to their midwife. | |
| Family | The Sentinel– 29 April 2009 |
| The Child Support Agency (CSA) missed its target for helping children despite record collection rates last month. The agency collected or arranged more than £100 million in maintainence in a single month for the first time in its history in March, at the end of a three year improvement programme. It failed to arrange or collect benefit on behalf of 790,000 children in 2008/09, a target set in the Department for Work and Pensions’ business plan published in April laast year. | |
| Family | The Sentinel– 30 April 2009 |
| Anti-Christian remarks by one of Coronation Street’s major characters have sparked scores of complaints. ITV were contacted by around 100 viewers following the assertion by Ken Barlow that Christianity was a ‘superstition’. Barlow, played by William Roache, is the longest-running charater in the soap, having appeared in the first episode in 1960. The charater also critised his grandson Simon’s school for teaching creationism... and accused Christians of targeting vulnerable people... Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog, also received a number of complaints. An ITV spokesman responded by saying ‘Coronation Street is a soap opera set in modern society and therefore represents views from all sides of the religious spectrum’. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | The Salvationist- 2 May 2009 |
| Benefit overpayments are continuing to rise, with the outstanding debt owed to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) hitting a record £1.8 billion, the Whitehall spening watchdog said. The National Audit Office said although the DWP managed to recover £272 million in 2007-08, it was outstripped by the £558 million made in overpayments. | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 1 May 2009 |
| Fast food and pub workers are having their pay cut as new legislation on holidays squeezes employers’ profits, according to a new report today. The rising of statutory holidays to 28 days a year from last month, had “heavily affected” some firms, it was claimed. Income Data Services said that around two out of five of the biggest fast food and pub employers had decided to offset the impact by cutting pay for bank holidays to standard hourly rates. | |
| Money | The Sentinel – 5 May 2009 |
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