British bishops: Time for Muslim prayer rooms in Catholic schools

Catholic schools would need to install bidets, foot spas and hoses to facilitate such extensive cleansing rituals, Muslims say…

Daphne McLeod, a former Catholic head teacher from south London, said it would be “terribly expensive” for the country’s 2,300 Catholic primary and secondary schools to provide ritual cleansing facilities.

She said: “If Muslim parents choose a Catholic school then they accept that it is going to be a Catholic school and there will not be facilities for ritual cleansing and prayer rooms.

“They do their ritual cleansing before they go to a mosque, but they are not going to a mosque.

“I don’t think the bishops should go looking for problems. Where will it stop?”