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January 31, 2023

Lords back abortion buffer zone amendment to turn prayer into ‘thought crime’

January 31, 2023

The House of Lords has backed the national roll out of buffer zones around abortion clinics in a move which could turn private and silent prayer into a thought crime. Peers voted in favour a move to criminalise activity that seeks to “influence” the decision of women booked in for abortions to go ahead with

Letter from the Editor: Remembering Benedict XVI at Cambridge

January 31, 2023

William Cash remembers Pope Benedict XVI's speech at Fisher House, the Catholic chaplaincy at the University of Cambridge

Thank you, Cardinal Pell

January 31, 2023

The Herald pays tribute to, and remembers fondly, the late plain speaking and clear thinking Australian cardinal

There is a rot in the German Church

January 31, 2023

The German Church should examine its own funding system, rather than pander to gender ideologies and seek to change Catholic teaching

Tory party is ‘natural home’ of Catholics, says Rees-Mogg

January 31, 2023

On Wednesday evening last week, the Catholics In The Conservative Party group hosted a formal launch event in the Houses of Parliament. The group aims to support, recruit and mentor Catholics in the Conservative party and public life to ensure that the Catholic voice is always heard in government. Having been officially founded in 2020

St Brigid: the latest victim of cancel culture in Ireland

January 31, 2023

February 1 marks the feast of St. Brigid in Ireland, a day most people in the country grew up with as the second most-important “Irish” saint’s day, with time spent in school making St Brigid’s crosses from reeds or rushes pulled from the fields that very morning. In more urban areas, where rushes were not

How Bruce Springsteen helped me grieve for my father

January 31, 2023

In the late summer and early autumn of 2021, I knew my father was approaching his last days on this earth. Inspired by the soothing sounds of ocean waves and a train wailing in the distance on a quick trip down to the Jersey Shore, I began to write his eulogy. But it didn’t really start flowing