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Catholic institute criticises MPs for ignoring euthanasia abuses in new report
March 01, 2024
A Catholic bioethics institute has criticised a new UK parliamentary report for whitewashing the uncontrollable spread of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the horrendous abuses of the elderly in countries where such practices are legalised. The report by Health and Social Care committee did not recommend a change to UK’s law against assisted suicide –
NHS end-of-life ‘pathway’ practises continue despite being banned
February 18, 2024
The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) was abolished in every hospital and hospice in the country just under a decade ago. This end-of-life-care protocol was scrapped by the Government as a “national disgrace”, in the words of Norman Lamb, then Care Services Minister, after a review by Baroness Neuberger found widespread failings and abuses. But troubling
GMC clears Catholic doctor investigated for ‘trying to save patient’s life’
February 09, 2024
The General Medical Council has cleared an experienced consultant neurologist who was investigated for three years for misconduct after giving a “pro-life” medical opinion in an end-of-life court case. The Revd Dr Patrick Pullicino, 74, who after retirement was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Southwark, faced an investigation by the regulator which could
Confirmation: Catholic priest did not provide key reference in alkaline attacker’s asylum claim
February 06, 2024
The suspect in the Clapham chemical attack was primarily assisted in his asylum application by a Baptist minister and not the Catholic Church, it has emerged. Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, an Afghan, is suspected of throwing a corrosive alkaline substance over a woman and two children in South London, leaving the 31-year-old woman with such “life-changing”
Catholic Church refutes accusations of helping alkaline attacker gain asylum 
February 05, 2024
The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle today denied assisting an Afghan fugitive wanted for an alkaline attack on a woman and her two children amid claims that an unnamed priest helped him to gain asylum in the UK. Abdul Shokoor Ezedi is suspected of throwing a corrosive substance over the three in Clapham, south London,
The terrible truth about ‘assisted dying’: Lessons from Canada and Australia
January 28, 2024
Another big push to legalise “assisted dying” in the UK has been reinforced by celebrity endorsements,  hard cases and the testimonies of serving and former politicians who underwent a change of heart and now see that patients should have ‘choice’ at the end of their lives. It is being driven largely by assisted suicide aficionado
Exile of Nicaraguan bishop was act of persecution, not a triumph for life
January 28, 2024
The liberation of Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa from jail in Nicaragua was met with a collective sigh of relief throughout the Catholic and freedom-loving world. After 514 days in jail on trumped-up charges of treason at last this brave man was safely at the Vatican. No longer was his life in any danger. Disaster
Chaos deepens as Dutch bishops collectively reject blessings for same-sex couples
January 19, 2024
The Dutch bishops have become the latest conference to collectively reject the new provision by the Vatican for non-liturgical blessings to same-sex couples and those in irregular relationships. A statement issued by the Bishops’ Conference of the Netherlands stopped short of authorising either blessings or prayers for any couples if they could be construed as
Italians bishops counter Pope by promoting sacked CDF secretary
January 17, 2024
Italian bishops appear to have delivered a snub to Pope Francis by promoting a Vatican official who the Pope sacked months after the official authored a key document prohibiting liturgical blessings for same-sex couples. Archbishop Giacomo Morandi, 58, was dismissed by the Holy Father soon after the then-known Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Cardinal Fernández prepares document on gender ideology
January 17, 2024
The Vatican is preparing a document on the ideology of gender, the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has said. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández made the revelation in an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE. “We are preparing a very important document on human dignity that not only includes social
Prayers answered: Nicaraguan bishop imprisoned for life gains freedom, though exiled to Vatican
January 15, 2024
Nicaragua has released a bishop jailed for 26 years after he stood up to the regime of President Daniel Ortega. Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa was sent into exile at the Vatican along with Bishop Isidoro del Carmen Mora Ortega of Siuna and 15 priests and two seminarians. The ejection of Bishop Álvarez comes almost
Radio Maria and the biggest daily parish in the UK
January 09, 2024
Simon Caldwell meets the young priest who runs a Catholic radio station from a priory in north London. Fr Toby Lees, a young Dominican priest of great energy and charisma, levels his gaze as he summarises the value of Radio Maria England, the youngest daughter of an international network of Catholic radio stations which each
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