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December 20, 2022

Woman arrested and charged for silent prayer near abortion clinic

December 20, 2022

Police in Birmingham have charged a Catholic woman with four counts of violating an abortion clinic “buffer zone” after she admitted that she might have been praying silently while standing outside. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested, searched and held in custody after she told officers that she might have said some silent prayers close to the

Pope Francis orders return of Parthenon fragments to Greece

December 20, 2022

Pope Francis has ordered the return of three Parthenon fragments which have been held in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for centuries to Greece. The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will give the 2,500-year-old fragments to His Beatitude Ieronymos II, the Orthodox archbishop of Athens and All Greece, as a gesture of

Scottish bishops oppose ‘unsafe’ Gender Recognition Reform Bill

December 20, 2022

The Catholic bishops of Scotland have aligned themselves with women’s groups and JK Rowling in urging MSPs to throw out a Bill to permit sex change by self-declaration. They say they are “gravely concerned” that the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will pose a threat to women and girls from predatory males who self-identify as