Life

Why are some people so intolerant about children at Mass?

i have just stomped in from an otherwise lovely day celebrating our eldest child reaching double figures. children being rather more sophist...
Flora Watkins

Hundreds gather in Parliament Square to protest against ‘abortion up to birth’ as vote looms

multiple advocacy groups, charities and christians gathered opposite the houses of parliament in london today to protest what could be the m...
Tom Colsy

A disturbing amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill is a clear threat to the Seal of Confession

parliamentarians can sometimes need watching carefully. the criminal justice bill, where debate is due to start today, is a case in point. w...
Prof Andrew Tettenborn

US commission condemns UK silent prayer arrest in abortion clinic 'buffer zones'

a united states federal government commission has criticised the arrest of a woman for praying silently outside an abortion clinic in the uk...
The Catholic Herald

Christians in Mozambique praying for peace as attacks grow 'more severe'

yaoundé, cameroon – violence has escalated in recent days in cabo delgado in mozambique, with the director of the denis hurley peace institu...
Ngala Chimton / Crux

'Say no to abortion up to birth': What's at stake for the UK this 15 May

the whole pro-life movement is standing together to say "no to abortion up to birth” this wednesday on 15 may. this is why you need to join ...
Clare McCullough

US bishops urge Congress to address maternal health amid mortality rate surge

the three chairmen of the united states conference of catholics bishops recently wrote to congress to urge lawmakers to address the nation’s...
johnlavenburg

UK Parliament abortion vote on 15 May: ‘A time to raise our voices and not lose heart’

bishops rarely comment on bills in parliament. lay christians, informed by their faith, freely and sincerely adopt different political views...
Bishop Mark Davies

What does it mean if we are 'kept' in the name of the Father?

"holy father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. while i was with them, i kept those you had g...
Fr David Howell

Douai Abbey: a place extolling the English Benedictine temper and charism

"a monastery is above all this: a place of spiritual power.” pope benedict, as ever, got to the heart of the thing when he addressed these w...
Gertrude Clarke