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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

Fifty former Anglicans from one parish join Ordinariate

Over 50 people were received into the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

After the drama of Bedford Square, the pro-life movement faces one enormous challenge

Pro-abortion protesters chant slogans while pro-lifers pray outside the BPAS clinic (PA wire)

We must win over the average Radio 4 listener who thinks the abortion lobby are the ones who really care about women

Thousands of young people kneel in adoration at Wembley Arena

A young man stands above the crowd at Wembley Arena (Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

Up to 10,000 Catholics attended Flame Youth Congress on Saturday

Government urged to cut ties with abortion industry after one in five clinics accused of breaking law

Pro-life groups says abortion clinics ‘routinely fudge or flout the law’

One million ‘faith cards’ arrive in parishes

Photo: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk

The cards are to be distributed over a month throughout the 24 dioceses in England and Wales

Diocese sees rise in Confessions

Priests hear Confessions at World Youth Day in Madrid (CNS photo)

The number of people attending Confession in the Diocese of Lancaster has increased following a Lenten initiative

Holy See approves Bible for ordinariate liturgy

The Holy See has also approved a liturgical calendar for Britain’s personal ordinariate

Pope asks Westminster Abbey choir to sing in Rome

The Westminster Abbey choir sang for Benedict XVI during his visit in 2010 (PA photo)

The choir will sing alongside the Sistine Chapel Choir at St Peter’s Basilica

Four Catholic schools become academies

Diocese of Westminster announces formation of academy trusts and says primary schools are to convert status too

Ethicists call for killing of newborns to be made legal

Professors from Milan and Oxford argue that 'foetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons' (PA photo)

A leading British medical journal publishes article calling for the introduction of ‘after-birth abortion’