That may be the reason Nadine Dorries felt so let down when she tried to reduce the upper time limit
Authors
Francis Phillips
Francis Phillips reviews books for the Catholic Herald.
Churches and pro-life groups dread any attempt to change the law on abortion
Thursday, 27 January 2011
The Government is wasting its time trying to measure happiness
Monday, 24 January 2011
Teaching ‘well-being’ at school is also hard to justify. Children are better off studying great works of literature
My encounter with the truly charismatic founder of L’Arche
Thursday, 20 January 2011
For 46 years Jean Vanier has travelled the world spreading a transformative message. Yesterday I saw him at Blackfriars
George VI, or ‘Bertie’, upheld a tradition of Christian kingship that may die out with Prince Charles
Friday, 14 January 2011
Our future king thinks Christianity is just one of many faiths
You cannot be true to Church teachings and hope to be ‘respectable’
Monday, 10 January 2011
Cardinal Hume was wrong to seek respectability within the English Establishment
Shakespeare did write Lear; what is more, he was a Catholic
Friday, 7 January 2011
Sir Derek Jacobi is wrong to think that Shakespeare could not have written his own plays; the greatest poet and dramatist of all times was an Englishman and a Catholic
My neighbour’s miserable Christmas
Monday, 3 January 2011
Hearing about her experience I made an instant resolution
The Pope’s Thought for the Day was simple and profound
Friday, 24 December 2010
But not, perhaps, controversial enough for John Humphrys
G K Chesterton, saint of the blogosphere
Monday, 20 December 2010
He loved debate and controversy but at the same time managed to remain magnanimous to his enemy
These B&B owners have been punished for being faithful to Christian teaching
Where is the tolerance for which our country was once celebrated?