The improbable MP Louise Mensch tells Catherine Lafferty why she is taking a pragmatic approach to reforming our abortion laws
Topic: politics
MPs reject Dorries plan to restrict abortion counselling
Amendment that would prevent abortion providers offering counselling is defeated by a majority of 250
MPs join criticism of English Baccalaureate
Report by MPs points to damaging effect that EBacc will have on religious education
I was wrong to be rude to Rowan Williams; but I wasn’t critical enough of his anti-coalition attack
The archbishop’s arguments were derived from Left-wing politics, not the Christian religion
Debate: Should Catholic bishops follow Rowan Williams’s example and intervene more forcefully in politics?
Or should they only intervene when they have the weight of the Magisterium behind them?
This is your opportunity to transform British society
Imaginative Catholics can help to secure a new civil settlement for our times, says Greg Clark
MPs seek to tighten abortion law
Labour and Tory MPs are tabling amendments to a new health bill that they say will dramatically reduce the number of abortions in Britain
Parliament has the right to decide on ‘women bishops’: Anglo-Catholics please note
If anyone doubted the Erastianism of the C of E, Frank Field has now proved it
Debate: Has the Church been ‘pathetic’ in the fight against abortion?
Or would aggressive interventions in politics be counter-productive?







The decline of political party membership in Britain has profound and depressing implications for religion
We seem to be moving away from mass movements towards a more atomised society. What can we do about it?