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July 31, 2015

‘Life is short. Have an affair.” The emailed advert from Ashley Madison has appeared repeatedly in my inbox over the past year or so. I have often thought that the advertisers should add a rider, in the interests of truth in advertising: “Yes, and risk your marriage, hurt your children, and invite many later regrets.”

Meanwhile…

July 31, 2015

two nuns who are objecting to the sale of their convent to pop singer Katy Perry say that their archdiocese is betraying them. “In selling to Katy Perry, we feel we are being forced to violate our canonical vows to the Catholic Church,” Sister Catherine Rose Holzman wrote to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. They

Polish bishops condemn IVF law

July 31, 2015

Polish bishops say they are “deeply disappointed” that a bill allowing state funding for in vitro fertilisation has been signed into law by outgoing president Bronisław Komorowski, despite a seven-year Church campaign to block it. Archbishop Henryk Hoser of Warsaw-Praga said the law “opens all doors to every possible abuse of human life. It’s a

All change at Walsingham

July 31, 2015

Since the Reformation, English Catholics have been praying for the conversion of England. Conversion has for many become a challenging word. It means changing from one thing to another, usually for the better. Many interpret the need for conversion as a rejection of their choices or lifestyles. They feel judged, as if their space has

Cardinal: don’t fall for assisted suicide lie

July 31, 2015

Cardinal Vincent Nichols has urged people not to fall for the “great lie” of assisted suicide. In a homily in Lourdes on Sunday for the annual Day for Life, Cardinal Nichols strongly reiterated the Church’s opposition to the legalisation of assisted suicide, saying that “it is a great lie to try and convince people that life lived with

Asia Bibi’s death sentence is put on hold

July 31, 2015

Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian who was sentenced to death for blasphemy, has had her execution temporarily suspended after the country’s supreme court agreed to hear her appeal. Mrs Bibi was arrested in 2009 after being involved in a dispute over a water bowl with a group of Muslim women she was working with. The

Spectre of Malthus hovers over welfare state

July 31, 2015

SIR – George Osborne’s recent Budget announcement that from April 2017, new recipients of tax or housing benefits will receive child benefit only for the first two children, has provoked little concern, even from his critics (Home news, July 10). The public are generally supportive of this measure to promote “behavioural change” – unsurprisingly, given

Two million human embryos destroyed in the past 25 years

July 31, 2015

more than two million human embryos have been destroyed in Britain as a result of IVF in the past 25 years, according to the latest government statistics. The figures were revealed following a parliamentary question submitted by Lord Alton of Liverpool, with the Department of Health disclosed that “the number of embryos allowed to perish