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September 18, 2023

Seriously ill teenager dies fighting mental competence ruling in UK court

September 18, 2023

A 19-year-old woman with a rare disease has died during a legal fight to circumvent a ruling that she was not competent to make decisions about her care, despite her desire to go abroad for experimental treatment. The woman, named only as “ST” for legal reasons, died from cardiac arrest late on September 12. She

Letter and Nazi dagger reopen debates over wartime role of Pope Pius XII

September 18, 2023

ROME – Two new discoveries regarding Pope Pius XII are rekindling debate over the role of the wartime pontiff, including a letter suggesting he had earlier knowledge of the Holocaust than previously believed and a Nazi dagger presented to the pontiff by a repentant SS officer. Both items were published in a Sunday insert of Corriere

The inhumanity of banning conversion therapy

September 18, 2023

News has broken that the government is beginning to think again about bringing forward legislation to ban so-called conversion therapy, if only because of the obvious and tragic consequences thrown up by the misery and confusion of transgenderism. This may be a pragmatic response. But there is an ideological, philosophical and moral agenda that has been