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Why the overturning of Roe v Wade could reopen the abortion debate in Ireland

May 26, 2022
Dualta Roughneen

The first paragraph of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade states: Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply-conflicting views. Replace America with Ireland, and the same has been the case for over 40 years, until recently. As of the past few years, the issue of abortion

There is no human right to abortion

May 24, 2022
David Albert Jones

In 1973 in the Roe v Wade case, the Supreme Court legalised abortion throughout the United States. Now, almost fifty years later the same court is considering overturning that judgement and returning abortion law to the states to decide. Media reporting of this case, especially in Europe, has been quite misleading. Often journalists have simply repeated

Archbishop’s decision to bar Pelosi from Holy Communion is long overdue

May 23, 2022
Laura Perrins

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has finally announced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should not be admitted to Holy Communion in his archdiocese, nor should she present herself to receive the Eucharist, until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion. In a letter to the faithful he said, “after numerous attempts to speak with

Light a candle for St Benet’s Hall

May 18, 2022
Damian Collins

Once gone, St Benet’s Hall will be impossible to replace, writes alumnus Damian Collins MP Like all current and former students of St Benet’s Hall I was distressed to read the statement from the Master this week that the Hall may no longer hold a licence from the University of Oxford beyond the current academic

End of the road for St Benet’s Hall?

May 17, 2022
Serenhedd James

St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, looks set to close, writes Serenhedd James The optimism with which I wrote about the future of St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, in the February edition of the Catholic Herald was clearly misplaced. The Master, Professor Richard Cooper, has now written to students to say that the University Council decided on 9th May that

Critics of Mother Teresa don’t have a clue about poverty

May 11, 2022
Dualta Roughneen

Attacking the reputation of a Catholic saint, no longer alive to defend herself (although it’s unlikely she would bother in any case), is a popular sport. Christopher Hitchens set the tone in 1995 with his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and since then it has been open house on one of the Catholic

What really happened with the ‘gay author’ and John Fisher School

May 07, 2022
Simon Caldwell

SINCE Simon James Green, the homosexual author of ‘teen fiction’, was prevented from promoting his latest book at a Catholic secondary school, he has been depicted as a victim, a tragic and misunderstood defender of the rights of LGBT+ children. Green likes to present himself in this way. It is how he sees himself. In a recent

Roe v Wade leak was an act of shameless intimidation

May 06, 2022
Laura Perrins

Well, we knew it would get ugly but the left in America have gone full mafia tactics with the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Never in the history of the court has a draft opinion been leaked. This smashes the constitutional norms of the court and the

Catholic children should be reading CS Lewis and GK Chesterton, not the blasphemous dross of Simon James Green

May 03, 2022
Laura Perrins

Let’s keep this simple. If you think inviting an author of sexually explicit material that also has a sprinkling of blasphemy to a Catholic school is a good idea, then do not become a governor at that school and do not teach there. If you are a parent who has a child there I suggest

The extraordinary overruling of Roe v. Wade

May 03, 2022
Ken Craycraft

The abortion wars in the US are not over, the battle lines have merely been redrawn

Russian nuclear orthodoxy

April 26, 2022
Mark Jenkins

For Patriarch Kirill nuclear weapons are necessary for salvation, explains Mark Jenkins Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, is a practising Russian Orthodox believer who often accompanies President Putin on visits to Orthodox monasteries in remote areas across the Russian Federation. At the entrance to Moscow’s Red Square the small Iveron Chapel is said to

Better to keep children chaste than to chasten John Fisher

March 11, 2022
Gavin Ashenden

As the Catholic John Fisher school comes under fire for its decision to disinvite LGBTQ+ author Simon Green, Dr Gavin Ashenden notes that those demanding inclusivity are the most intolerant

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