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Can prayer and fasting actually make any difference when it comes to abortion?

March 21, 2024

Are we facing our own “1967 moment”? The upcoming threat of total decriminalisation of abortion alongside attempts to legalise euthanasia hovering on the horizon can appear to represent a present-day reiteration of the seismic decision to legalise abortion here in the UK back in 1967. The constant threats to life at its beginning, end and

Euthanasia deaths in Belgium reach record high

March 06, 2024

Deaths by euthanasia in Belgium have hit a record high, new government figures have revealed. The number of people dying by a lethal injection at the hands of their doctors has also nearly doubled in the space of just 10 years, according to the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia. Statistics show that in

Centesimus Annus After 30 Years

May 04, 2021

Like the sabbath, the economy is at the service of the human person, not vice versa. Thus, the measure of a moral economy is the development of the full human person.

How McCarricks Happen

April 18, 2021

Thinking in terms of McCarricks, plural, is important for the Catholic Church. If we’ve had to suffer one, what’s to stop there being others? Indeed, among many lessons to be learned from the whole sorry spectacle, surely one is that being a McCarrick can (to borrow a concept from game theory) be a supremely profitable ‘strategy’.

The Failings and the Surprising Virtues of the Vatican II Priests

April 12, 2021

A conservative Catholic finds he admires certain "spirit of Vatican II" priests and realizes his old hope in the "JP2 generation" may have been misplaced.

Analysis: BXVI’s letter on St John Paul II has at least one line for Francis

May 15, 2020

It's easy to confuse questions of doctrine with those of governance - there's often a good deal of real-world overlap - which is why it's important to make and keep the distinction

Seifert: Vatican’s pro-contraception theologian must ‘revoke his grave errors’ or resign

January 12, 2018

The philosopher, a former member of St John Paul II's pro-life academy, said that accepting Fr Chiodi's remarks would be a ‘betrayal’

As secular liberalism attacks the Church, Catholics can’t afford to be nostalgic

January 05, 2018

Ross Douthat and others hope for a stable truce between Christianity and aggressive liberalism. That's just wishful thinking