Burials Bill debate and churchyard practices noted
In an exchange on Mr Osborne Morgan's Burials Bill, readers hear of a North Ireland parish where all denominations bury in churchyard ground with a shared bell toll. Henry Richard MP cites Welsh chapel graveyard statistics showing many chapels lacking burial grounds, challenging misreported figures.
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Debates Over Burials Bill Split Clergy and Dissenters
Opinion pages weigh the York Canterbury meetings and the Burials Bill, arguing no compromise should bar Dissenting ministers from performing services in parish graveyards. Critics caution against denationalising the church and urge open burial grounds for all denominations.
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Case on Reverend title in Keet v. Smith on appeal
On Friday the Privy Council heard Keet v Smith and others regarding the right of Nonconformist ministers to be titled Reverend. The Court of Appeals sat at Whitehall with its panel of judges.
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