Simon Caldwell, Author at Catholic Herald

Simon Caldwell

Assisted suicide will put elderly and vulnerable in grave danger, Scottish bishops warn MSPs

December 22, 2021

Elderly, lonely and vulnerable people would be placed at huge risk if the Scottish Parliament backed a proposed assisted suicide Bill, the country’s bishops have said. In a submission to the consultation on assisted suicide proposed by Liam McArthur, a Lib Dem MSP, the Scottish Catholic bishops have opposed the concept as an attack on

New Zealand okays euthanasia for COVID patients

December 20, 2021

Patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 can die by euthanasia if doctors decide they might not survive, the New Zealand government has declared. The Ministry of Health confirmed that a right to a lethal injection under a new euthanasia law could extend to patients who were either dying from the coronavirus or suffering unbearably from

Mother Teresa orphanage faces police probe for ‘forcing’ girls to pray and read Bible

December 16, 2021

Police in India are investigating the religious order founded by St Teresa of Calcutta for allegedly forcing Hindu girls to convert to Christianity. The Missionaries of Charity has been accused of compelling girls in an orphanage in the western state of Gujarat to read the Bible, pray and wear crosses. The investigation follows an inspection

Persecution of Christians prompts rights groups to urge U.S. to treat Nigeria as ‘country of concern’

December 14, 2021

US President Joe Biden is facing demands from human rights groups to formally recognise the religious persecution of Christians in Nigeria. Fifteen faith-based religious freedom groups have joined forces with 32 leading global human rights advocates in calling for the Biden administration to re-designate the African nation as a “Country of Particular Concern”. An open

Attacks on Christians in Europe soar by 70 per cent in a year amid rise in secularist and Islamist ideologies

December 10, 2021

Attacks on Christians and church property in Europe has soared by 70 per cent in just one year, a new report has said. Physical violence, arson, vandalism and harassment, along with increasing discrimination by public authorities rocketed in 2019-2020. The worst five countries effected were the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden, according to

EU bid to ban word ‘Christmas’ is throwback to Nazi and Communist eras, Pope tells journalists

December 07, 2021

The Pope has denounced an attempt by the European Union to excise the word “Christmas” from official documentation as a throwback to the dictatorships of Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. The 32-page manual for language used by EU institutions, called “Union of Equality”, recommended the use of “holiday period” instead of “Christmas period” to avoid offending

Pakistani lynch mob murders Christian boss for throwing stickers with Islamic slogans into litter bin

December 07, 2021

A lynch mob has battered a Christian man to death in Pakistan then burned his body while taking selfies of themselves on their mobile phones. Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, the manager of a garment factory in Sialkot, was accused by Muslim colleagues of blasphemy after he asked them to remove stickers with passages from the Koran

The realignment continues

December 01, 2021

Simon Caldwell says that the exodus to Rome was prophesied decades ago

Campaign begins to recognise Brother Michael Strode, monk who founded the HCPT, as a ‘modern-day saint’

November 29, 2021

A campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to Lourdes. A Mass celebrated at Our Lady of Victories Church in Kensington, London, will mark the formal establishment of a committee to promote the cause for sainthood of Brother Michael Strode, the founder the Hosanna House

Bishop ‘devastated’ by moves to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide in Jersey

November 26, 2021

Politicians in Jersey have taken the first major steps toward legalising both euthanasia and assisted suicide. Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, the diocese which includes the Channel Islands, described the move as a “devastating” development which would put the lives of elderly people in grave danger. Members of the States Assembly voted by 36 to

Channel drownings ‘a tragic summons to action’, says Cardinal Nichols

November 25, 2021

Cardinal Vincent Nichols has spoken of his sorrow at the drownings of 27 migrants in the English Channel. A pregnant woman and three children were among the dead in the worst tragedy in the Channel since the migrant crisis began as they tried to cross in a boat one French Minister likened to a paddling

Open your homes to refugees fleeing the Taliban, bishop urges the faithful

November 25, 2021

Catholics in England and Wales are to be asked to find homes for thousands of Afghanistan refugees fleeing the Taliban. Parishes will be requested to make large houses available for extended families and to provide the Muslim refugees with such items as clothing and computer technology. Ordinary Catholics will be encouraged to befriend the Afghans

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