When Church leaders proclaim on matters of government policy they run the risk of coming unstuck
Topic: Iain Duncan Smith
The Catholic Church was right not to join critics of Iain Duncan Smith’s benefit reforms
Posted on Thursday, 4 April 2013
What are we Catholics doing about poverty?
Posted on Monday, 24 September 2012
The economic question remains the biggest one of the age
Squeezing welfare budget further is not the answer, says Iain Duncan Smith
Posted on Thursday, 24 May 2012
Work and Pensions Secretary defends his reforms in an article in this week’s Catholic Herald
Cameron has left the Church floundering
Posted on Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Robin Harris says that the Conservative Party and the Catholic Church in Britain have never enjoyed anything more than fleeting alliances
Why didn’t the looters’ parents know where they were? Why didn’t they teach them about right and wrong? Answer: society has undermined the family
Posted on Thursday, 11 August 2011
We need to back the authority of parents, police, teachers. ‘Children’s rights’ has led to disaster
Rowan Williams has exposed his ignorance and crass insensitivity yet again
Posted on Friday, 10 June 2011
That’s a nuisance; it means that our own bishops will now be cautious when they ought to speak out
This is your opportunity to transform British society
Posted on Monday, 4 April 2011
Imaginative Catholics can help to secure a new civil settlement for our times, says Greg Clark
Duncan Smith visits St Chad’s Sanctuary
Posted on Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, visits St Chad’s Sanctuary in Birmingham
Conviction politics is back, they say. But will the politicians keep it up; and do they really mean it?
If you believe that there is such a thing as truth, then you have to tell those who disagree with you, voters or not, that they are just wrong