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The cynical politics (and politicians) endorsing assisted dying and abortion

April 14, 2024

This is a bleak time to be pro-life. The holistic vision of human life from conception to natural death as being invested with dignity and worthy of respect is being steadily undermined by legislatures. In Britain and Ireland, there are moves to introduce assisted dying into law. An Irish parliamentary inquiry has recommended legislation to

Pope St Leo the Great on keeping a Holy Lent

February 12, 2024

A reflection from Pope St Leo the Great – Sermon 46: The right practise of abstinence is needful not only to the mortification of the flesh but also to the purification of the mind; we desire your observance to be so complete that, as you cut down the pleasures that belong to the lusts of

Oxford Oratory celebrates uptick in adults received into Catholic Church

February 08, 2024

The Oxford Oratory reports that an increase in adults seeking to be received into the Catholic Church means that it has had to start special classes to cater for the influx, and that as a result the Oratory has been responsible for 5 per cent of such application requests within its relevant Archdiocese during 2023.

Union of Catholic Mothers sticking up for married families at time of ‘great unrest’

February 07, 2024

The Union of Catholic Mothers was founded in 1913 to unite Catholic married women in the UK. It is a national organisation which promotes the full ideal of marriage, Christian values in family life and Catholic religious education of children. UCM members are made aware of current social, political and medical policies at the national

Poland grapples with changes to abortion law as Catholic Church hits back

February 01, 2024

Poland’s Catholic Church has spoken out against proposals by Poland’s new ruling coalition to liberalise the country’s abortion law and restore prescription-free access to the morning-after contraceptive pill. Civic Coalition (KO), the largest group in Poland’s ruling coalition, has submitted a bill to parliament to introduce abortion on demand up to the 12th week of pregnancy.

Hong Kong’s Catholics face ‘collapse of religious freedom’

February 01, 2024

Religious freedom is being lost in Hong Kong due to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, according to a new report from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. Released 30 January 2024, the Hostile Takeover: The CCP and Hong Kong’s Religious Communities report highlights “the systematic breaking of promises” made under the so-called

Persecution of Nigeria’s Christians raised in UK House of Lords

January 16, 2024

The jihadist extremism driving terrorist attacks across Nigeria has been raised in the UK Parliament’s House of Lords. Christians have typically been the target of such attacks. Lord Alton of Liverpool has called on the UK government to take action to help identify and bring to trial the perpetrators of recent extremist atrocities, and of previous killings

‘On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me’…Mrs Hanrahan’s recipe for Christmas pudding sauce

January 01, 2024

There will be many readers who are still making their way through their plum puddings. The following recipe for Mrs Hanrahan’s Sauce for Christmas pudding comes from Darina Allen’s A Simply Delicious Christmas. This delicious sauce will give extra oomph to pudding served on the Ninth Day of Christmas. The following makes a large quantity,

‘On the seventh day of Christmas my true love sent to me’…WB Yeats’s poem ‘The Mother of God’

December 30, 2023

The threefold terror of love; a fallen flare Through the hollow of an ear; Wings beating about the room; The terror of all terrors that I bore The Heavens in my womb. Had I not found content among the shows Every common woman knows Chimney corner, garden walk, Or rocky cistern where we tread the

Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem

December 21, 2023

The following Christmas Message was released 21 December 2023 by the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem, in which they highlight the similarities between the current strife in the Holy Land and the events occurring more than two thousand years ago when Jesus was born: Christmas Message of the Patriarchs and Heads of

Vatican appears to endorse couples in ‘irregular situations’ receiving blessings that do not ‘validate their status’

December 18, 2023

A new declaration from the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith appears to attempt to square the controversial issue of approving blessings for same-sex couples without undermining the Church’s traditional teaching on the sanctity of marriage. The Declaration Fiducia supplicans issued by the Dicastery on 18 December, approved by Pope Francis, means “it will be

The plight of Christians in the Holy Land this Christmas

December 17, 2023

This editorial from the Catholic Herald reflects on the attack on Christians in Gaza yesterday. There is one part of the Church where the celebrations for Christmas have already been put on hold, and that is the Holy Land, where Church leaders encouraged Christians to curb the usual festivities and decorations out of respect for

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