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December 26, 2021

If the Assisted Dying Bill returns to parliament and becomes law, who will be protected from compulsory involvement?

November 25, 2021

The birth of the Christ child is an occasion to reflect on other babies and on life in the womb that precedes birth. The most dispiriting development recently in respect of prenatal human life is the European Parliament’s vote last month, directed mainly at Poland, but having far wider implications. Andrew Tettenborn examines its implications

Cordileone to Catholic students after boycott of pro-life assembly: ‘Do not be victims of the culture’

November 23, 2021

San Francisco, Calif., Nov 22, 2021 / 19:19 pm The archbishop of San Francisco has encouraged students at a local Catholic high school to reject the lies of the abortion industry and become courageous advocates for life, following a boycott of a pro-life assembly at the school. “Do not be victims of the culture,” Archbishop

Leading pro-life bishops: Catholic Church must be prepared if Roe overturned

November 19, 2021

The Catholic Church must be prepared to act if Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide, is overturned, says the incoming chair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. “If Roe is overturned, the issue, as I understand it, goes back to the states and the

It’s time for a conversation about justice, top Catholic scholar says

November 15, 2021

Famed ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre called upon academia and other Catholics and intellectuals, to invest in the “expensive conversation” about justice, and to sharpen their understanding of what constitutes human dignity. MacIntyre, whose teaching career spans 70 years and includes some of the most important books on virtue ethics such as “After Virtue” and “Dependent Rational

The European Union’s attack on conscience

November 11, 2021

As its row with Poland intensifies, the EU has passed an abortion resolution that betrays an alarming strain of anti-religious feeling

Senators mark 1st anniversary of declaration rejecting push to declare abortion an ‘international right’

November 02, 2021

Washington D.C., Nov 2, 2021 / 05:00 am U.S. senators have celebrated the first anniversary of a declaration affirming that there is “no international right to abortion.” Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced a concurrent resolution on Oct. 28 marking a year since the launch of the Geneva Consensus Declaration on Promoting Women’s Health and

Supreme Court hears challenges to Texas abortion ban

November 02, 2021

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 1, 2021 / 14:27 pm The U.S. Supreme Court spent nearly three hours Monday hearing arguments in a pair of cases challenging Texas’ new abortion ban. Now the justices must decide what action, if any, to take in response to a state law crafted expressly to ward off the court’s intervention.