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February 16, 2023
February 16, 2023
A judge in Birmingham has acquitted a Catholic priest and a pregnancy counsellor of so-called “thought crimes” after police charged the pair in connection with praying outside an abortion clinic District Judge David Wain dismissed the case against Fr Sean Gough, 33, an assistant priest in Wolverhampton and Staffordshire, and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, 45, of Malvern,
February 16, 2023
Andrew Doyle, the comedian, broadcaster and writer, joins Dr Gavin Ashenden for the 37th episode of Merely Catholic, the podcast series for The Catholic Herald, to discuss the rise of new ideologies broadly described as “wokery”. Doyle, author of the 2022 book The New Puritans, compares the followers of destructive new ideologies with old school religious
February 16, 2023
If available information about Mass attendance since the COVID-19 outbreak is true, then there was certainly significant cause for Word on Fire and Catholic Voices’ conference on identifying the ways of sharing the Church’s story in the modern world. The key speaker at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre opposite Westminster Abbey was American Bishop Robert
February 16, 2023
“Allahu Akbar!” shouted a terrorist in Spain recently as he wounded a priest and killed a sacristan in broad daylight. God is great, certainly, but what made the deranged man think that God will reward acts of murder?  Such a question is all too often asked in Nigeria where persecution of priests and other Christians
February 16, 2023
A Catholic charity’s projects coordinator reporting from the scene of the devastating earthquakes has said that there is little, if any, evidence of aid getting through to Syria. Xavier Bisits, the head of Syria and Lebanon projects for Aid to the Church in need, who travelled to Aleppo within hours of the catastrophe, decried an
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