Covid hasn’t been good for any of us, but at least it’s been temporary. For unborn children, unfortunately, it has indirectly been a disaster. At the beginning of lockdown, the government quietly eased an important part of the Abortion Act 1967. Citing the inaccessibility of licensed clinics to those confined at home, it temporarily removed
The EU is constitutionally committed to the idea of democracy. Furthermore, every country in it is by tradition Christian, about a third being fairly strongly Catholic. Yet shortly before Christmas the European Court of Justice rebuffed an attempt to use democracy to promote Christian values. In 2013 an Italian initiative under the aegis of Pope
Catholics have often made common cause with the promoters of human rights. And with good reason: as Leo XIII argued in Rerum Novarum (1891), we cannot condone cruelty, neglect or baseless discrimination directed at anyone if we profess the idea that we are all equally made in God’s image, and that mistreatment of any one
A simple but important religious freedom case has reached the Supreme Court. Ashers, a bakery in Belfast, appealed against a £500 damages award under British and European Union laws for discrimination on sexual orientation grounds. Its owners, who are devout Presbyterians, had declined to provide a cake decorated with the words “Support Gay Marriage” to
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