It’s a real question: I simply don’t understand
Topic: criminal justice
The Holy Father is clearly opposed to the death penalty; but why doesn’t the Church oppose it as unequivocally as abortion and euthanasia?
Posted on Friday, 2 December 2011
Court rules that Church is liable for crimes of priests
Posted on Thursday, 10 November 2011
Ruling defines the relationship of a priest to his bishop as that of employee to an employer
The Joanna Yeates trial and the Salvation Army chaplain who heard a confession of murder
Posted on Wednesday, 12 October 2011
The details of the case have been distressing: surely the jury can hear these in private?
The Amanda Knox case is an indictment of Italian justice
Posted on Tuesday, 4 October 2011
The news media do not come out well, either. The obsession with Knox’s looks was infantile
Abortion doctor charged over eight deaths
Posted on Thursday, 20 January 2011
A doctor in Philadelphia is charged with murdering seven newborn babies and a female patient
Irishman avoids prison by making pilgrimage
Posted on Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Man convicted of drunken behaviour and verbally abusing a police officer climbed Ireland’s holiest mountain instead of going to prison
Abu Hamza is off to face US justice, and not before time. But the case of Babar Ahmad seems different: will he now undergo yet another extradition injustice?
He doesn’t even know the charges against him: so much for justice being seen to be done