Simon Caldwell, Author at Catholic Herald

Simon Caldwell

MPs announce inquiry into ‘assisted suicide’

December 06, 2022

A cross-party group of MPs has announced that a parliamentary inquiry on assisted suicide will be opened next year. The Health and Social Care Committee intends the inquiry to investigate the issue from “different perspectives”, evaluating moral, ethical and practical concerns against the evidence it receives. Dignity in Dying, the campaign group formerly known as

Census 2021 and Newman’s ‘age of infidelity’

December 05, 2022

Christians are now well into the season of Advent, the time of preparation for Christmas, the feast of the Nativity of Jesus Christ. This was the hour when the “light of men” entered human history. This is the light that, according to St John, “shines in darkness and darkness could not overpower it”. The words

A beast born of Newman’s end times theology

December 02, 2022

Simon Caldwell explains how his debut novel was inspired by St John Henry Newman’s ‘theology of conscience’ and his teachings on the Antichrist

Catholic priests in India lead protests against port redevelopment

December 01, 2022

Police in India have clashed with residents of a largely-Christian fishing village protesting against a port redevelopment project, leaving more than 80 people injured. Catholic priests led hundreds of demonstrators in a march against the $900-million Vizhinjam port project, which is being undertaken by India’s Adani Group. But the protest in Kerala state turned violent

Beware the rise of ‘dangerous ideologies’, warns bishop as Christians become minority in Britain

November 30, 2022

Britain is becoming increasingly vulnerable to “dangerous ideologies”, a bishop has said after the latest census revealed that Christians were in the minority for the first time since records began. Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury said that data from the Office for National Statistics showed that Britain is breaking free from its Christian moorings and

Walsingham rector appointed new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark

November 29, 2022

(Photo credit: Marcin Mazur) Pope Francis has appointed the rector of the Marian shrine at Walsingham as a new Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark. Mgr Philip Moger, 67, a former banker who has served as a priest of the Diocese of Leeds for 40 years, will be ordained on February 21 in St George’s Cathedral London.

Down’s woman vows to fight abortion law discrimination in Supreme Court

November 25, 2022

A woman with Down’s syndrome is to take her fight to halt abortions up to birth for babies with her genetic condition after the Court of Appeal rejected her case. Heidi Crowter, 27, of Coventry will apply for permission for her case to be heard at the Supreme Court following her defeat in London. She

Canada’s hellish euthanasia laws

November 24, 2022

Does life have no value anymore? asks Simon Caldwell For a language which to the English ear occasionally sounds guttural, German also contains a few words as musical as they are useful. Think of Doppelgänger or Schadenfreude. Words such as these tend to creep into the English language when we lack an equivalent to convey the meaning so

Bianca Jagger appeals to Pope to defend Catholic church in Nicaragua

November 22, 2022

Bianca Jagger has released a film in which she implores Pope Francis to speak out about the persecution of the Catholic Church in her native Nicaragua. Ms Jagger, a human rights defender, said in the film that bishops, priests and nuns have been targeted in an “unholy war” by Marxist President Daniel Ortega and his

Nigeria must not become the next Afghanistan, Bishop warns West

November 21, 2022

Nigeria is at risk of being over-run by Islamists unless the West acts firmly to combat terrorism there, a bishop has warned the British Parliament. Bishop Jude Arogundade of Ondo said his native Nigeria could become the next Afghanistan unless decisive action is taken against terror groups and their sponsors. In a meeting in Westminster,

French archbishop admits inappropriate advance to young woman

November 17, 2022

A retired French archbishop is being investigated following a complaint that he sexually abused a young adult woman in the 1980s. Emeritus Archbishop Jean-Pierre Grallet of Strasbourg has admitted to making “an inappropriate gesture” to the woman while serving as a Franciscan priest. The precise nature of the complaint has not been revealed. “At the

Church needs encyclical to counter gender ideology, says Dutch cardinal

November 17, 2022

A Dutch cardinal has asked Pope Francis for a papal encyclical to combat the false anthropology at the heart of the ideology of gender. Cardinal Willem Eijk, the Archbishop of Utrecht, made the request in Rome during meetings between senior Vatican officials and Dutch bishops who were making their four-yearly ad limina visit. “I have

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