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A misguided sham: International Women’s Day

March 08, 2024

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a day which proclaims to act as a focal point in the women’s rights movement, “celebrating” the achievements of women, gender equality and reproductive rights. Hashtagged #EmbraceEquity, it is a day for all women: short women, tall women, fat women, thin women, rich women, poor women, women with penises and 18”

‘Deplorable’ abortion plan for US veterans goes against military’s ethos to ‘protect the innocent’

March 07, 2024

NEW YORK – The US federal government’s decision to change how it provides abortion services to US military veterans is “at odds with the notion that the military protects the innocent”, argues the prelate who heads the Archdiocese for the Military Services in the US. On 4 March, the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)

Pro-life student caught up in Manchester University’s scenes of abortion hysterics talks to Catholic Herald

March 06, 2024

“Get your rosaries off our ovaries” chanted a group of men protesting the first meeting of the Manchester Pro-Life Society, a student group established at Manchester University in January 2024 to “create a pro-life culture on campus”. “Get your rosaries off our testicles” would have been more accurate, but it just doesn’t have quite the

Are the dark gods back: Enraged crowds, psychosis and possession?

March 05, 2024

After watching the videos of mobs of supposedly progressive students at Manchester University, shouting, swearing, threatening, intimidating and attempting to terrify a handful of their contemporaries – who had the temerity to set up a pro-life student society on campus – it’s hard not to ask the question: What on earth possessed them? Sometimes there are moments when idiomatic language

France becomes first country in world to make abortion a constitutional right

March 04, 2024

France has chosen to enshrine abortion as a constitutional right, thereby becoming the only country in the world to use its most fundamental principles of national law to guarantee the right to terminate a pregnancy up to 14 weeks. Lawmakers from both houses of the French Parliament voted 780 to 72 in favour of the

Anti-Christian drift of human rights agenda continues with new European ‘sexual and reproductive rights’ report

March 04, 2024

You might think Catholics and human rights lawyers should have a good deal in common. The political idea of universal rights beyond curtailment by secular powers certainly seems to chime neatly with the Christian doctrine of the unconditional preciousness of each individual as a being made in the image of God. Indeed, at one time

‘Terrified’ pro-life student group needs police protection from baying mob at Manchester University

March 02, 2024

A student pro-life group who met at the University of Manchester required police intervention due to a hostile crowd of up to 250 people that surrounded the building where the meeting took place. The student pro-life group, Manchester Pro-Life Society, met for a talk on the evening of 1 March. The harassment began as soon

Using ‘baby loss certificates’ to paper over cracks of a ‘post-truth’ world

February 27, 2024

Last week, the British public were presented with two pieces of news that, in another age, might have jarred more noticeably than they have done in the current climate. The first was the news that baby loss certificates would be given to bereaved parents who lose a baby before 24 weeks of pregnancy, giving them “formal acknowledgement