Nadine Dorries would like to reduce the abortion limit to 20 weeks, yet as the mother of a Down’s syndrome daughter I could not support her proposal
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Francis Phillips
Francis Phillips reviews books for the Catholic Herald.
I could not accept a reduction in the abortion limit if it excluded the disabled
Monday, 24 October 2011
St Francis would have rejoiced at the idea of a pilgrimage to truth at Assisi
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
His own life was a pilgrimage of joyful suffering towards a closer union with Christ
Lord Nicholas Windsor has braved the Establishment – ie, his own family – by speaking out on abortion
Monday, 17 October 2011
The Queen’s cousin has set a fine example to fellow royals and fellow Catholics
Stop believing in guardian angels and soon we’ll stop believing in anything
Friday, 14 October 2011
Guardian angels come low down on the list of Christian beliefs, yet we should not dismiss them as ‘childish’. Abandon ideas such as this and the whole edifice of belief soon falls down
For atheists, death is the only point of life – that is Christianity’s great selling point
Thursday, 13 October 2011
While we should, like Steve Jobs, live every day like it was our last, we should never allow our lives to be defined by this ‘one appalling fact’
The Holy Father calls for a faith stripped of worldly habits
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Much of the 1950s, Home Counties Church that I grew up in had become a matter of mere convention
The dynamic, missionary, ‘evangelical’ Church of today is a world away from unthinking pre-Vatican II complacency
Friday, 7 October 2011
What John Allen describes as ‘Evangelical Catholicism’ gives me hope for the future
The Anglican woman vicar who gave up her ministry to become a Catholic
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Una Kroll, ordained a priest in 1997, says ‘God gave me a direct push that I could not resist’
The poet who confronted T S Eliot over his anti-Semitism
Monday, 3 October 2011
Jewish poet Emanuel Litvinoff was horrified that Eliot’s anti-Semitic sentiments persisted after the Holocaust
Should pro-life campaigners compare abortion to the Holocaust?
A new American film compares abortion to the Final Solution, but is such a comparison tasteless, and does it even help the pro-life cause?