Laura Perrins, Author at Catholic Herald

Laura Perrins

‘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

LeRoy Carhart and how to love your enemy

May 03, 2023

When the news broke that notorious late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart was on his death bed, some pro-life Christians on social media asked for prayers for his conversion. This received a mixed reply, to say the least. LeRoy Carhart died a few days later. As Christians, we are told in no uncertain terms that we must

As fertility rate plummets in Catholic Italy, what hope is left for the West?

April 27, 2023

Over the years I have had four children, so I have been to a lot of playgrounds. I could write a book on the best and worst playgrounds in south east London. What I have noticed compared to when I had my first child about 13 years ago is that these days, I am often

DeSantis is right about the death penalty – in some cases it can be morally justified

April 24, 2023

Catholic organisations have called a new Florida law that ends the unanimous jury requirement in death penalty sentencing “stunning” and a “thinly veiled attack on human life”, while the state’s Catholic governor and potential 2024 presidential contender Ron DeSantis argues the law allows proper justice to be served. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill

Pope Paul VI was right about The Pill – now everyone else is finally catching up

April 20, 2023

(Davina McCall fronts a new Channel 4 Documentary which exposes the problems with and dangers of The Pill) The contraceptive pill has had a bad few months. In March, a study found that use of progesterone-only contraceptives is associated with a 20 to 30 per cent higher risk of breast cancer. As the feminist writer

USCCB doctrinal note prohibiting transgender procedures is a welcome intervention

March 23, 2023

The Doctrinal Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued on 20 March a 14-page firm doctrinal note on the “Moral Limits to Technological Manipulation of the Human Body”. It sets out clearly the prohibition on “manipulating” or mutilating the bodies of people, especially young people, with the aim of changing sex,

Jeremy Hunt’s childcare overhaul spells the end for the traditional family

March 16, 2023

When I read that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt wanted to get a million more women (he means mothers) back to work, I thought perhaps he had overdone the sherry. When I saw him later, at the dispatch box, declaring that “almost half of non-working mothers said they would prefer to work if they could arrange suitable

Biden’s transgender agenda is extreme and inhumane

March 15, 2023

President Biden has been let out again, this time to inform us that laws preventing the mutilation of the bodies of gender-confused children is, in fact, sinful. He was criticising Florida’s regulation of transgender medical care for children and its ban on gender ideology in the classroom, calling the measures “close to sinful”. Biden said

Young Catholic women more conservative than their grandmothers

March 09, 2023

The Times reported on Tuesday that “the majority of female Catholics want radical reforms to the Church and think the Vatican should be more tolerant of divorce and diversity, according to a worldwide study of worshippers”. The Australian-led study, which is due to be presented at the Vatican on Wednesday, was initiated by Catholic Women

IWD: Let us remember St Monica, the original helicopter mother

March 08, 2023

Saint Monica was perhaps the ultimate pushy parent and helicopter mother before helicopter mothering became the norm. The difference between St Monica, mother of wayward son, late converter and Father of the Church Saint Augustine, is that not only did she desire her talented son to have a great education, but she also wanted him

Drag queens in schools: the unbelievable has finally happened

March 01, 2023

If you argued ten years ago that schools would be inviting drag queens to teach children that there are 73 genders, you would have been called a crazy person. This argument would be deemed so extreme and unbelievable that you wouldn’t be taken seriously – you would be dismissed out of hand. Yet that is

Kate Forbes has made the catastrophic mistake of admitting to being a Christian

February 21, 2023

It is fantastic when a Christian politician with orthodox views on human sexuality runs for leadership of a political party as it means that the media start to get very interested in the concept of sin. Reporters positively fall over themselves to ask the latest candidate whether they think gay sex is a sin. Tim

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