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Anscombe leads calls for 'Charlie's Law' after death of Archie Battersbee

an internationally-respected catholic bioethics centre has called for urgent reforms of uk law after doctors ended the life of a brain-damag...

A work whose wings are clipped by prejudice

birds and us: a 12,000 year history, from cave art to conservation by tim birkhead viking 2022, £25, 441 pages our relationship with birds h...

No greater nightmare

a ray of hope might be on the horizon for campaigners and parents seeking to challenge the absolute power of the nhs and the courts in decid...

‘Cop26 has to be be a turning point’

thousands of catholics took to the streets of the uk to show their support for policies to halt climate change and reverse ecological degrad...

Senators mark 1st anniversary of declaration rejecting push to declare abortion an ‘international right’

washington d.c., nov 2, 2021 / 05:00 am u.s. senators have celebrated the first anniversary of a declaration affirming that there is “no int...

Catholic leader says his archdiocese won’t take part in global synodal process, citing ‘ideological’ risk

vaduz, liechtenstein, oct 20, 2021 / 09:00 am a catholic leader has said that his archdiocese won’t take part in the two-year global synodal...

Vatican imposes term limits on leaders of international lay organizations

the vatican’s dicastery for laity, family, and life has issued a new “ general decree ” – approved in forma specifica by pope francis and th...

Religious leaders decry new immigration plan as lacking humanity

a coalition of faith groups and religious leaders has denounced the government’s new plan for immigration” (nfpi). “we believe these proposa...

Pope calls for regulation of global financial markets

pope francis released his prayer intention for the month of may on tuesday, encouraging catholics to pray for “the world of finance.” the po...

Diary: This is a shrine, not a B&B

i've been at our national catholic shrine of our lady in walsingham since mid-september, so within the period of the pandemic but not, at th...

Rt Rev Mgr Canon Philip Moger