Laura Perrins, Author at Catholic Herald

Laura Perrins

Why Catholics should applaud Ayaan Hirsi Ali – even if she is stating what we knew all along

April 22, 2024

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who made headlines last November when she announced she was a Christian – after growing up as a Muslim before turning toward atheism – last week took on the issue of the nuclear family being subverted by malign forces. Her highlighting of this issue included explaining why the nuclear family based on

Stop just blaming mobile phones for children’s despair: Parents bringing up children without God isn’t helping either

April 10, 2024

Concerns and platitudes about mental health is all the rage for children these days. Over the years, with my three older children at school, I have seen offers of yoga (which is not exactly in keeping with Catholic teaching), therapy dogs, counsellors, assemblies on mindfulness, well-being week, “all-about-me” posters and much more. Granted, some of

Ban school skirts, suppress femininity, take anti-depressants: Perhaps that isn’t actually working for young women today?

March 07, 2024

The more that modern society tries to proscribe femininity, the more that many females – especially younger generations – appear unhappy. Might there be a link?(!) Last week, there were two stories in relation to this that caught my attention. We had Dame Jenni Murray urging us to ban girls from wearing skirts at school, supposedly for

The problem with Saint Brigid’s pagan makeover

January 31, 2024

Saint Brigid now has her own state-sanctioned bank holiday in Ireland, which this year falls on Monday, 5 February, following the saint’s feast day on 1 February. Along with St Patrick and St Columcille (Columba), St Brigid is one of Ireland’s three patron saints. Her recent “promotion” follows the organisation Herstory mounting a three-year campaign to get

Surrogacy: Is there now nothing that the modern world won’t commoditise?

January 10, 2024

This January sales time it appears you can get yourself a half-price baby. Or at least one at a reduced price, excluding delivery charge. This isn’t as flippant as it might sound. The reality we now inhabit is one in which the buying and selling of children increasingly exists in the form of surrogacy. This

Staying connected to the Christian message of ‘A Christmas Carol’

December 27, 2023

On this day 180 years ago Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol. Just two days after Christmas, around 2,000 people gave the author their rapt attention, not to mention frequent applause. Published on 19 December 1843, it had already sold 5,000 copies by Christmas Eve. It has never been out of

Another attack on womanhood – this time in Ireland

December 07, 2023

The mania in Ireland for believing that everything that happened before yesterday was old, archaic, tainted with Catholic values and therefore must be ditched in the nearest dumpster continues apace. It has been announced that next year Ireland will mark International Women’s Day with a referendum proposing to erase the word “woman” from the Irish

JFK’s assassination 60 years ago today marked the start of America’s moral disintegration

November 22, 2023

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas Texas on the 22 November 1963 by a communist. A Democrat, Kennedy was the first Catholic president of the United States at a time when the WASP aristocracy still dominated American public life. Kennedy was an ardent

Christian Voice Ireland event: the Irish thought police strike again

September 29, 2023

You will be aware that “Ireland has changed.” The Irish media never stop telling you how much Ireland has changed, now that they have thrown off the shackles of the evil, authoritarian Catholic Church that did so much wrong in Ireland such as providing much-needed health and educational services, long before the State stepped in,

Raising children in Britain is becoming increasingly hard

September 11, 2023

G.K. Chesterton when talking about children said, “as we walk the streets and see below us those delightful bulbous heads, three times too big for the body, which mark these human mushrooms, we ought always primarily to remember that within every one of these heads there is a new universe, as new as it was

Britain’s DIY abortion regime needs to end now

August 15, 2023

On Thursday, a 22-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to charges alleging she illegally administered drugs in order to procure an abortion. The first charges was: “On 6 July 2020 at Stockton, with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by a wilful act, namely administering drugs to procure abortion,

‘Eldest daughter syndrome’ is the latest stick being used to beat large families with

May 09, 2023

If as a mother you spend much of your time feeling guilty, there is yet another thing you can feel awful about – asking your eldest daughter to help around the house. Some women are now suffering from “eldest daughter syndrome” which is “the emotional burden eldest daughters tend to take on (and are encouraged

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Prayer is the best kind of self-help

October 07, 2022

Thoughts on the feast day of Our Lady of the Rosary

In praise of matriarchs

September 23, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II's descendants were lucky to have such a powerful woman at the helm of their family, writes Laura Perrins

Katherine of Aragon should be a saint

September 13, 2022

Catherine of Aragon endured a living hell defending her own marriage, writes Laura Perrins

Advice to parents: be vigilant

September 05, 2022

As children go back to school, Laura Perrins gives her take on Catholic schools in the UK

Is our obsession with “stuff” pushing us further away from God?

July 28, 2022

We must guard against greed, writes Laura Perrins

Standards in public life are at rock bottom

July 18, 2022

A decline in religion in Britain is destroying the integrity of all our public institutions

Patience is a virtue in short supply

July 07, 2022

Christian parents must practice what they preach when it comes to teaching their children about patience

The tragedy of Britain’s abortion figures

June 24, 2022

We must try and build a culture of life not death in this country, writes Laura Perrins

The Catholic response to America’s gun culture

June 08, 2022

What is the point in overturning Row v Wade, only for children to be shot dead in their classrooms?

Formula shortage: our society does not value mothers as it ought to

May 26, 2022

During the week a humanitarian airlift took place to deliver vital food to a desperate group of people. No, I am not talking about Christian Aid doing their great work in parts of Africa or even Oxfam delivering aid to Ukrainians fleeing war. I am talking about 35 tonnes of infant formula being delivered

Are we doing enough to teach our children about marriage?

May 12, 2022

It is the duty of parents and the church to bring young Catholic men and women together

Masks at Mass: Catholics must stop fearing Covid and start fearing God

April 28, 2022

Why are the faithful incredibly eager to follow whatever the public health authorities told them about Covid, yet ignore church teachings when it comes to family planning?