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Over 700 medical professionals back biggest change to UK abortion law in a generation

March 11, 2024

More than 700 medical professionals have called on MPs to lower the upper time limits for abortions by two weeks. They want politicians to back an amendment to the Government’s Criminal Justice Bill, in what would be the biggest change to abortion law for a generation, when the legislation arrives in the House of Commons

Death of Catholic former Dutch prime minister highlights ‘duo euthanasia’ trend in Netherlands

February 21, 2024

At the start of February both Dries van Agt, a Catholic former Dutch prime minister, and his wife chose to die together through euthanasia. Married for 70 years, both Van Agt and his wife, Eugenie, were ill and 93 years old at the time of theirs deaths that are part of a small but growing

Bishop of UK’s Ukrainian Catholics asks for Lenten reflections on war as conflict approaches two-year mark

February 21, 2024

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – The head of Ukrainian Catholics in the UK has called on all to remember Ukraine during Lent as the two-year anniversary of the Russian invasion approaches on 24 February 2024. During an address to mark the start of Lent, Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski of the Eparchy of the Holy Family of London

Union of Catholic Mothers sticking up for married families at time of ‘great unrest’

February 07, 2024

The Union of Catholic Mothers was founded in 1913 to unite Catholic married women in the UK. It is a national organisation which promotes the full ideal of marriage, Christian values in family life and Catholic religious education of children. UCM members are made aware of current social, political and medical policies at the national

Leading UK Catholic refugee agency ‘profoundly troubled’ by Rwanda plan

January 17, 2024

LEICESTER, UK – Britain’s chief Catholic refugee agency says the UK’s continued plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is “profoundly troubling”. This week, the British parliament is debating a Bill declaring that Rwanda is a safe country for asylum seekers. This would reverse the November 2023 ruling by the UK Supreme Court, which said

Bishops urge Catholics to act to stop Meacher Bill

August 25, 2021

The bishops of England and Wales have urged Catholics to write urgently to peers to ask them to speak against the Assisted Dying Bill when it comes before the House of Lords in the autumn. In the first major intervention by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales since the introduction of the Private Member’s

Kneel before God, not the NHS

August 20, 2021

Former Anglican priest Gavin Ashenden is disappointed by the promotion of secular worship by the Church of England

Office Politics

May 01, 2021

Sir Bill Cash reviews The Impossible Office? The History of the British Prime Minister, by Anthony Seldon