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Amid the pandemic, abortion advocates get their way
April 02, 2020
It might have been a coincidence that the Government decided to announce its framework for abortion in Northern Ireland on March 25, feast of the Annunciation and the date upon which Christians hold that the Virgin Mary conceived the Child Jesus. The announcement was preceded by some anxious scenes in the House of Commons among
Amid the grief, Catholics are already at work supporting the needy
March 26, 2020
On Friday March 20, many Catholics in England and Wales attended the final public Mass for some time. (Pictured: Catholics after the last Mass at Westminster Cathedral.) Numbers were certainly larger than the average weekday Mass – but worshippers, mindful of the need for “social distancing”, will have been keeping the requisite six feet from
At Britain’s Supreme Court, ‘a sad day for vulnerable women’
March 19, 2020
The Supreme Court last week declined to hear an appeal against the imposition of the first “buffer zone” around an abortion clinic in Britain. The 100m (330ft) exclusion zone around the Marie Stopes clinic in west London was approved by Ealing Council in April 2018, ostensibly to prevent harassment of clients and staff. The pro-life
Cardinal Nichols: The cathedral choir is our school’s raison d’être
March 12, 2020
A lingering controversy continues to surround Westminster Cathedral Choir School and its world-class singers. Months of turbulence have followed the abolition of weekend boarding for 20 choristers: a move which means that the choristers, aged eight to 13, will no longer sing together seven days a week. Parents and prominent musicians have raised the alarm;
Asia Bibi seeks political asylum in France
February 28, 2020
Bibi wants to live closer to French writer Anne-Isabelle Tollet, who was influential in her fight for freedom
How Chesterton’s home was saved
February 27, 2020
Aficionados of GK Chesterton must be feeling a palpable sense of relief at the news that a plan to bulldoze his former home and replace it with flats has been thrown out by the local council. South Bucks District Council dismissed proposals by Octagon Developments to demolish the house, called “Overroads”, in Grove Road, Beaconsfield,
The story behind the birth of a new Marian icon
February 20, 2020
Pope Francis took the time to personally bless an icon of Our Lady of Walsingham last week. The painting was commissioned by Mgr John Armitage, rector of the national Marian shrine in Norfolk, as part of the preparations for the re-dedication of England as the Dowry of Mary on March 29. Mgr Armitage was part
After a 30-year prayer campaign, Britain’s oldest abortion clinic closes
February 13, 2020
When 40 Days for Life begins in Lent there will, for the first time in decades, be no one praying outside the Calthorpe Clinic. This is not because a High Court judge has declared a “buffer zone” around the Marie Stopes abortion centre in Edgbaston, Birmingham, to prevent people from assembling there, but because it
‘Misogynistic thugs of the Vatican’: Labour’s extraordinary abortion row
January 23, 2020
By giving Jeremy Corbyn “10 out of 10” for his leadership of the Labour Party, Rebecca Long-Bailey declared herself as the “continuity candidate” in the race to become his successor. Certainly the left of the Labour Party sees it that way. The MP for Salford and Eccles not only has the support of Mr Corbyn,
The Benedictine who provoked vampire hysteria
January 23, 2020
Shapeshifters: A History By John B Kachuba Reaktion Books, 200pp, £16/$22.50 The myth of the vampire is among the most popular in international folklore, inspiring nearly 400 films and television productions over the past century. The most recent of these was Dracula, the joint BBC-Netflix mini-series broadcast from New Year’s Day and which, in the
A twist in the Tafida story
January 16, 2020
The directors of the Gaslini Children’s Hospital in Genoa last week called a press conference about progress in the condition of one of their patients. Tafida Raqeeb, the British child at the centre of a right-to-life struggle which in October her parents sensationally won, had been removed from intensive care just three months after the
A relative of Prince Harry heads for canonisation
January 09, 2020
Next week could see a cricket-mad aristocrat related to Princes William and Harry take a step closer to canonisation, when Vatican officials meet to decide if Fr Ignatius Spencer lived a life of “heroic virtue”. Theologians and historians of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints will assemble on Thursday (January 16) to give their
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