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Madeleine Teahan

Madeleine Teahan is Associate Editor at the Catholic Herald and chairs the Catholic Herald Podcast Debates. Her special interests include euthanasia and assisted suicide. She is on Twitter as @MadeleineTeahan

Down’s abortion figures may be higher, admits Government

The Government recorded that 582 abortions were performed on unborn babies with Down's Syndrome in 2010 (Photo: PA)

Hundreds more children with Down’s Syndrome may be being aborted each year than figures show

‘I just couldn’t walk away from this’

Eve Farren: ‘I wish there had been a national body to support me and give me strength. So I thought maybe I should create that body’

Madeleine Teahan talks to Eve Farren about why she is helping pro-lifers to navigate the jungle of student politics

Head of the CDF urges Catholics to welcome ordinariate converts

Archbishop Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Photo: CNS)

Archbishop Müller says members have often ‘sacrificed a great deal to be true to their consciences’

Jesuit priest who said his cancer was a ‘gift from God’ dies aged 83

Fr John Edwards said after being diagnosed with lung cancer that he had never been so happy

Priests pay tribute to Fr John Edwards SJ, a ‘wonderful confessor’ who inspired many conversions

Former Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain dies

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II receives the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Faustino

The former Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain has died.

State rejects archbishop’s call for review of care pathway

Archbishop Smith, chairman of the bishops' Department for Christian Responsibility and Citizenship (Photo: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk)

Department of Health says it will not launch an inquiry into the Liverpool Care Pathway despite plea from archbishop

Leading Church historian to be received into personal ordinariate

Dr Edward Norman, the historian and former Canon Chancellor of York Minister, is to become a Catholic

New bishop asks the faithful to fight ‘strangling counter-culture of death’

Bishop Egan waves to his fellow bishops after the ordination Mass (Photo: CNS)

Bishop Philip Egan says people in Britain are ‘sorely in need of new hope’

Top historian criticises St Mary’s for ‘grotesque’ treatment of professor

Prof Eamon Duffy, an honorary fellow, said in a resignation letter that the university’s Catholic ethos had gone ‘badly amiss’

English bishop’s ordination to be broadcast in schools

Masses at St John's Cathedral are now broadcast on the internet

Ordination of Bishop-elect Egan will be streamed live online and be seen by up to 30,000 pupils