Monday, 16 December 2013

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"There is something deeply unsavoury about the inhumanity with which immigration targets are being pursued" 

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'Clear injustice': Explosive Catholic attack on British immigration rules

Priests wear their new clerical vestments during the annual Chrism Mass in Westminster Cathedral. The Church's insistence on a compassionate response to immigration is coming into conflict with tough rhetoric from the government.

Immigration rules are breaking up British families and forcing children to live without a parent, the most senior Catholic in England and Wales says

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