Life

Diary: the Knights Hospitaller, the Holy Land, and the miracle of birth

i recently returned from a pilgrimage with the british association of the order of malta to the holy land. our visits to the holy places rem...
Mgr John Armitage

Down's woman vows to fight abortion law discrimination in Supreme Court

a woman with down’s syndrome is to take her fight to halt abortions up to birth for babies with her genetic condition after the court of app...
Simon Caldwell

Liberals are wrong to push for the ordination of women

i was once in conversation with a man so desperately concerned with women’s rights that he soon put me in my place for defending the male pr...
Katherine Bennett

Growing extremism and intolerant nationalism are to blame for increased persecution of Christians, says new report by Catholic charity

john pontifex explores why acn's new report - persecuted and forgotten? a report on christians oppressed for their faith 2020-22 - should be...
John Pontifex

Pope Francis denounces populism

on sunday, pope francis ate lunch with hundreds of refugees and homeless people, calling for a renewed commitment to helping society’s weake...
Ignatius Dean

Welsh government's aggressive attack on childhood innocence

the battle against compulsory sex education for minors ought to be of major concern to all of us who care deeply about protecting the innoce...
Edmund Adamus

Cardinal Sarah gives our youth hope 'not by being nice, but by being faithful'

when i was 11 i started at a large co-ed secondary school in what lewis hamilton would later call the “slums” and spent the first few days t...
Katherine Bennett

'Synod', 'synod' and 'synodality': why we should be wary of poorly defined words

what do we mean by "synodal" or "synodality"? this is an important question as the church moves towards the conclusion of the synod on synod...
Dubhaltach O Reachtnin

Suicide rates soar wherever euthanasia or assisted suicide are legalised, reveals study by Anscombe Centre

the numbers of people who commit suicide surge in countries which legalise euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, new research has revea...
Simon Caldwell

Ron DeSantis: a different kind of Catholic President?

two big takeaways emerged from the us midterms. the first was that the democrats were not obliterated by a republican “red wave”. the second...
Ignatius Dean