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Merely Catholic: When Faith is Sacrificed to Fashion with Ann Widdecombe

July 22, 2022

Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative Cabinet Minister and MEP for the Brexit Party, speaks to fellow Catholic convert Dr Gavin Ashenden, in this 14th episode of the Merely Catholic podcast series for the Catholic Herald about the future of the Church of England to which they both once belonged. Miss Widdecombe says Anglicanism is terminally

The unlikely champions of married priests

November 16, 2017

It might baffle Catholics elsewhere, but in England many supporters of clerical marriage are conservative

Churches urged to toll their bells to mark 50 years since Abortion Act

October 12, 2017

Ann Widdecombe joins appeal for churches to commemorate eight million lives lost since 1967

Catholic institute leaves Britain after years of ‘mental torture’ over visa applications

March 16, 2017

The Institute of St Anselm in Margate is relocating to Rome

Why is the Home Office turning priests away?

March 16, 2017

St Anselm’s has been driven out by the Government’s failure to grasp religious life

What’s inside this week’s magazine?

July 23, 2015

Your guide to this week's issue

Ann Widdecombe: Church’s ban on Communion for divorced and re-married is ‘unduly harsh’

October 15, 2014

The former Catholic MP said that the teaching caused huge distress

Cardinal backs campaign to buy £5m Tudor-era mansion

January 31, 2014

Campaigners want to turn Sawston Hall into a heritage centre telling the story of Catholic England

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