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April 22, 2021

People who you'd expect to be anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers turn out to be strongly pro-mask and vaccine — because they care for someone vulnerable. It's a teachable moment for them, but only if they see how their experience changes their politics.

US bishops urge compromise in contraceptive mandate case

September 12, 2016

The bishops said the rights of people with religious objections to contraception should be protected

Pro-life campaigners welcome suspension of Marie Stopes services

August 22, 2016

Inspections at abortion clinics in England have prompted serious concerns about patient welfare

‘Use of nuclear weapons can never be morally justified,’ say bishops ahead of Trident vote

July 18, 2016

Ahead of Parliament vote on Trident renewal, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales said deploying nuclear weapons 'does not fit within the Just War tradition'

Reason is the loser in our political age of overblown symbolism

June 28, 2016

Last week's gun control sit-in highlights how one side of the culture war has successfully linked its opinions to the most contentious periods in US history

The Corab report is grossly unfair to Catholic schools

December 07, 2015

Sectarianism is not a self-evident result of religious selection in schools

Extremism plans would ‘push cause of religious freedom back by 300 years’

October 30, 2015

Leaked Government plans include proposal to sack charity trustees deemed 'extremist'

British Government ‘reluctant’ to call persecution of Middle East faithful genocide

October 27, 2015

Lord Alton has said the killing of Christians in Syria is a 'genocide that dares not speak its name'