people seeking asylum to be confronted and addressed.

·	The Churches to foster a wider debate focused on alternative ways of implementing and managing asylum policy.

The whole document can be viewed on the CTBI website:
http://www.ctbi.org.uk/downloads/ccrj/asylumlayout03-06-06.pdf

The Jesuit Refugee Service has published an excellent book called 'God in Exile – towards a shared spirituality with refugees', which is available online at: www.with.jrs.net/files/GodinExile.pdf

NEWS NOTES

Churches should pay a Living Wage
Church Action on Poverty is calling upon Churches to pay their employees, lay or ordained, a Living Wage of at least Ł7.25 an hour in London and Ł6.80 an hour elsewhere in the UK, from 1 October 2006. Niall Cooper, National Coordinator of CAP said that, "we are sending out a clear message that the Church cannot tolerate low pay and poverty".
The National Minimum Wage, set to rise from Ł5.05 to Ł5.35 from October 2006, although welcome, still does not raise families with children above the poverty line. The Living Wage figure reflects the true cost of a "low cost but acceptable" budget, based on research conducted for the Zacchaeus Trust by the Family Budget Unit of London University.

Cardinal deplores Trident
Welcoming peace walkers to Edinburgh on 19 September, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, described the

investment of billions of pounds in more nuclear weapons in Britain as "iniquitous, irrational and absurd". Cardinal O’Brien was greeting participants in Scotland’s 137 km Long Walk for Peace from Faslane to Edinburgh. They completed their march with a rally at the Scottish Parliament.
The UK Government is to decide before the end of this year whether Britain will continue to have nuclear weapons and whether to build new submarines to replace the Trident nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Cardinal O’Brien urged the British government "not to invest in a replacement for the Trident system and to begin the process of decommissioning these weapons with the intention of diverting the sums spent on nuclear weaponry to programs of aid and development".
Cardinal O’Brien reiterated a previous statement that "here in Scotland we have a duty to lead the way in campaigning for change because we have the shameful responsibility of housing these horrific weapons". He called upon Scottish people, "to demand that these weapons of mass destruction be replaced but not with more weapons of mass destruction; with projects that bring life to the poor!"

Vatican backs Scottish bishops on missile stance
The Vatican has backed the opposition of Scotland’s Catholic bishops to the Trident missile system and its possible replacement. It came in a letter sent by Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, to Cardinal Keith O’Brien in September.
Cardinal Martino, who was formerly the Holy See’s representative at the United Nations, said that the Scottish bishops' stance "gives a clear view of the Holy See’s position on nuclear weapons". He added that the weapons "represent a grave threat to the human family" and called for disarmament.

Catholic Worker house opens in east London
A new Catholic Worker house of hospitality has opened in London’s East End. The house has been provisionally called Dorothy Day House. Organiser Martin Newell described the