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January 10, 2024

St Thomas Becket’s shrine has a fine and sacred story: Now they (literally) dance around his grave

January 10, 2024

Canterbury Cathedral is set to host the latest Anglian gimmick. Scarcely a month seems to go by in the United Kingdom without a small scandal relating to a medieval Catholic cathedral sequestrated at the Reformation and now run by the Church of England. The current cathedral custodians in different places have resorted to golf courses,

Watts of Westminster: a truly English firm with a 150-year legacy of crafting the beauty of holiness

January 10, 2024

Cecilia Rexworthy introduces the work of Watts & Co as the firm celebrates its 150th anniversary. If you wander past Westminster Abbey, and through the mellow stone archway of Dean’s Yard, through the throng of jostling pupils of nearby Westminster School, and onto Tufton Street, your eye may casually stray into an open doorway. A

Surrogacy: Is there now nothing that the modern world won’t commoditise?

January 10, 2024

This January sales time it appears you can get yourself a half-price baby. Or at least one at a reduced price, excluding delivery charge. This isn’t as flippant as it might sound. The reality we now inhabit is one in which the buying and selling of children increasingly exists in the form of surrogacy. This

Scottish Catholics fear proposed ‘conversion therapy’ ban will lead to ‘State-approved’ suppression of religious freedoms

January 10, 2024

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Scotland’s Catholic Church is urging the Scottish government not to ban “conversion practices” directed at LGBTQ+ individuals, saying such a measure could create “a chilling effect and may criminalize advice or opinion given in good faith”. The Scottish government has launched a consultation on banning what it refers to as “conversion

Irish Medical Council endorses ‘fundamental shift’ in medical ethics paving way for government euthanasia push

January 10, 2024

The Irish Medical Council has updated its ethical guidelines for doctors. The standout change—and a disturbing change, especially given the supposedly ethical focus—is the removal of the very explicit direction: “You must not take part in the deliberate killing of a patient.” The amendment to the 2024 Guide to Professional Conduct & Ethics for Registered