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August 22, 2023
It’s a bit late to be worrying about the polar ice caps melting when the ground under our feet was lost years ago.  A nation that moves away from God cannot hold together. We have already fallen apart.  We can stack up the hours, days and years of our lives that we spend talking about the
August 17, 2023
An American court has halted the practice of sending out abortion pills by post. A unanimous panel for the U.S Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must restore critical safeguards for chemical abortion drugs and disallow their shipment by mail. The ruling follows an application by
December 28, 2022
The sad truth is that the murder of however many infants there may have been at the time, a monstrous crime though it is, would barely have made a ripple in the violent, stormy history of Judea, says Richard Ounsworth OP
December 20, 2022
Police in Birmingham have charged a Catholic woman with four counts of violating an abortion clinic “buffer zone” after she admitted that she might have been praying silently while standing outside. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested, searched and held in custody after she told officers that she might have said some silent prayers close to the
November 15, 2022
The Catholic Herald looks at concerning new legislation passed amidst government turmoil
October 31, 2022
Parliament is in the process of debating the Public Order Bill which, in Amendment NC11, would introduce “buffer zones” outside abortion facilities across England and Wales to ban pro-life volunteers. The Bill, which passed through the House of Commons last week, is due to go to second reading in the Lords tomorrow (Tuesday).  While most
October 20, 2022
Is it only Catholics who care about the unborn? asks Gavin Ashenden One of the more horrific parts of Catholic history in these islands was the extent to which the English state went to outlaw the Catholic Mass. The arrest, torture and execution of Catholics left a deep stain on the conscience and reputation of
August 16, 2022
The US state of Idaho is set to begin a near-total ban on abortions after a court late last week refused to stop a state law from criminalising nearly all abortions in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade in Dobbs vs. Jackson. In all, about half of US
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