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Catholicism has a much-needed place in Public Office – but we need to articulate it better

April 04, 2024

We talk easily about faith and public service: education, medicine, law and order. Few Catholics would abstain from voting. And yet we have a reticence when it comes to talking about faith and public office. Electoral politics is tough and messy. It has an adversarial nature, like our judicial system or broadcast media. It is

UK politicians table ‘extreme’ abortion amendments to Government bill

December 20, 2023

In the past few weeks Labour Members of Parliament have tabled amendments to the Conservative Government’s Criminal Justice Bill that would decriminalise abortion – that is, remove it from the criminal law. They are using a method that has worked very effectively in recent years: hijacking a government bill to make extreme changes to abortion law.

Today’s Conservative Party is no place for Catholics

February 02, 2023

The Catholics in the Conservative Party group hosted a formal launch event in the Houses of Parliament last week. The group says it aims to support, recruit and mentor Catholics in the Conservative party and public life to ensure that the Catholic voice is always heard in government. The event’s guest speaker was Conservative MP

Tory party is ‘natural home’ of Catholics, says Rees-Mogg

January 31, 2023

On Wednesday evening last week, the Catholics In The Conservative Party group hosted a formal launch event in the Houses of Parliament. The group aims to support, recruit and mentor Catholics in the Conservative party and public life to ensure that the Catholic voice is always heard in government. Having been officially founded in 2020

Liz Truss: should Catholics be happy with the UK’s new Prime Minister?

September 07, 2022

In the end, the result was no shock, as Tory veteran Liz Truss defeated Rishi Sunak to become the UK’s next Prime Minister. It may seem odd to a global audience that the leader of a country of 67 million people could be selected by just over 140,000 members of a political party which just

Standards in public life are at rock bottom

August 12, 2022

A decline in religion in Britain is destroying the integrity of our public institutions

Is politics too important for politicians?

July 21, 2022

Unless you happen to live under a rock, you won’t fail to have noticed that the UK is currently being forced to endure yet another underwhelming Tory leadership election contest – the ruling party having defenestrated its leader and Prime Minister, it now falls to a small coterie of party members to select from a

Next in line to replace Boris Johnson

July 13, 2022

Andrew Cusack on the current line-up to succeed Boris Johnson at No.10