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‘Dignitas Infinita’ is a commendable rebuttal to secular human rights manipulation – but that won’t stop the declaration being used by its antagonists to create more waffle

April 10, 2024

Dignitas Infinita. The Latin for “Infinite Dignity”. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s new Declaration on Human Dignity arrives at a time in history where the idea of human rights is starting to eat itself. One of the core messages of the Declaration is that the Church sees that human rights are being co-opted by

Anti-Christian drift of human rights agenda continues with new European ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ report

March 04, 2024

You might think Catholics and human rights lawyers should have a good deal in common. The political idea of universal rights beyond curtailment by secular powers certainly seems to chime neatly with the Christian doctrine of the unconditional preciousness of each individual as a being made in the image of God. Indeed, at one time

Own goal: the Church of England and the World Cup Final

November 26, 2022

With the world’s eyes on Qatar, there’s a huge rumpus brewing in the clergy circles I move in – both face-to-face and on social media – about a suggestion by the Church of England that the World Cup Final on 18 December somehow trumps the last Sunday in Advent and that therefore traditional carol services

Time to act in Nicaragua

September 24, 2022

The Vatican must change its tack with the Ortega regime

A fighter for rights

August 12, 2022

Years of media intrusion that followed the stabbing meant that Baroness Hollins would emerge as a leading campaigner for tighter regulation of the British press and for higher media standards

Nigeria: Stories of modern-day slavery (and the under-funded fight to end it)

July 29, 2021

Every year, thousands of Europe-bound Nigerian youths illegally travel along often-dangerous migration routes through the Sahara desert and across the Mediterranean Sea, voyaging on hapless boats, most intent on reaching Italy where they hope to make a better living. Their hopes often crumble like a house of cards.

Cardinal: Religious freedom will be Europe’s ‘great problem of the future’

June 17, 2021

Vatican City, Jun 16, 2021 / 13:00 pm. A leading European cardinal has said that the great problem the continent will face in the future is attacks against religious freedom. In a June 16 interview with ACI Stampa, CNA’s Italian-language partner agency, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said he thought that “the problem of religious freedom will be the

Brazil’s Bishops Sound Alarm over Covid-19 Prison Dangers

May 10, 2021

Inmates’ relatives outside the Dom Bosco Juvenile Detention Centre, where detainees rioted in April of 2020 after authorities suspended family visits to prevent the spread of coronavirus. April 18, 2020. (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL / AFP) (Photo by MAURO PIMENTEL/AFP via Getty Images) Inmates’ relatives, pastoral workers decry insufficient information, safety measures By Eduardo