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August 23, 2023

Pope to update environmental teachings in Laudato Si’ to cover extreme weather

August 23, 2023

Pope Francis is writing a second part to Laudato Si’ – his landmark papal encyclical on the environment – to address weather catastrophes such as extreme heat waves, floods and wildfires. The Holy Father revealed that an extended version of the 2015 encyclical on the “the care of our common home” was in the pipeline during off-the-cuff

Legalising euthanasia will ‘allow a destabilising exception to the principle that one may not kill the innocent’

August 23, 2023

Keir Starmer may become our next prime minister. In 2010, in his role as Director of Public Prosecutions, he issued guidelines concerning which cases of assisted suicide were more likely and which less likely to be prosecuted. Critics felt that this was a camel’s-nose-under-the-tent strategy, through which assisted suicide would be normalised in some cases because