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The battle for Ireland’s Catholic soul will not slacken in 2024

January 02, 2024

Literary critic Harold Bloom said that all poets must confront their precursors in a type of “Oedipal struggle in order to create an imaginative space for themselves”. He felt that those who came late to the scene of cultural upheaval go through a process of “misreading” their predecessors. It appears as if progressive Ireland

Canada’s bishops ‘urgently’ trying to counter State euthanasia expansion

December 14, 2023

Facing an imminent expansion of Canada’s assisted suicide law to make people suffering from mental illness eligible, the nation’s Catholic bishops are calling on healthcare providers to invest more in mental health resources to get people the help they need. “With the threat of [assisted suicide] becoming available to Canadians whose sole medical condition is

Legalising euthanasia will ‘allow a destabilising exception to the principle that one may not kill the innocent’

August 23, 2023

Keir Starmer may become our next prime minister. In 2010, in his role as Director of Public Prosecutions, he issued guidelines concerning which cases of assisted suicide were more likely and which less likely to be prosecuted. Critics felt that this was a camel’s-nose-under-the-tent strategy, through which assisted suicide would be normalised in some cases because

‘Careless words cost lives’ – reflections on recent statements from the Pontifical Academy for Life

April 25, 2023

A number of news outlets have picked up the story that Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has appeared to lend his support the legal toleration of assisted suicide. The story is based on a speech he gave during the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. In a later clarification, the Archbishop stated that he “reaffirms his

Assisted dying? It’s happening

April 01, 2023

Assisted dying may not be legalised, but it is already taking place in British hospitals – without the consent of patients or their families. Nine years after the discredited Liverpool Care Pathway for end-of-life care was discontinued on the basis that it was euthanasia by another name, a report from the Lords and Commons and

Canada’s hellish euthanasia laws

November 24, 2022

Does life have no value anymore? asks Simon Caldwell For a language which to the English ear occasionally sounds guttural, German also contains a few words as musical as they are useful. Think of Doppelgänger or Schadenfreude. Words such as these tend to creep into the English language when we lack an equivalent to convey the meaning so

The Thin End of the Wedge

October 01, 2021

The spectre of so-called “assisted dying” is rearing its head again, as the British Medical Association controversially changes its stance to “neutral” and Baroness Meacher’s private member’s bill is soon to have its second reading. The sad case of Alta Fixsler, a brain-damaged Hasidic Jewish girl, reveals not only that euthanasia without consent is already

Bishops urge Catholics to act to stop Meacher Bill

August 25, 2021

The bishops of England and Wales have urged Catholics to write urgently to peers to ask them to speak against the Assisted Dying Bill when it comes before the House of Lords in the autumn. In the first major intervention by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales since the introduction of the Private Member’s