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March 07, 2023

Jordan Peterson’s Twitter spat with Pope Francis

March 07, 2023

A few days ago there was a Twitter spat between Jordan Peterson (3.9 million followers) and Pope Francis (18.9 million followers, not including the 1 million assumed-to-be Latin Mass supporters who follow him on his Latin account). The news of this may fill you with delight or horror; or both. The Pope’s Twitter account usually

Video: Charitable volunteer arrested again for praying silently near abortion facility

March 07, 2023

A woman has been arrested for a second time for the “offence” of silently praying in her head within an abortion facility censorship zone or “buffer zone”. Bail conditions have been imposed on Isabel Vaughan-Spruce prohibiting her from attending an area within the vicinity of the abortion facilities which extends beyond the censorial “buffer zone”.

Faith schools are worth fighting for

March 07, 2023

Faith schools have long faced an onslaught of attention from secular society. In recent weeks an investigation by The Times has given London’s “inadequate” Orthodox Jewish schools, in particular, their fifteen minutes of infamy. Certainly, many faith or unregistered schools have genuine deficiencies, and there are plenty of Haredi schools failing to ensure their pupils

Irish PM says primary school children must learn ‘what it means to be transgender’

March 07, 2023

A row has emerged between Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, and the Irish Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA), which has an oversight role in 89 per cent of the primary schools in Ireland. In a letter to Irish government children’s and education ministers, the schools association challenged views expressed by the minister for children