Special Reports

CPS rejects charges against Catholic arrested for 'thought crime' prayers

prosecutors have dismissed charges against a catholic woman arrested for praying silently outside a closed abortion facility. isabel vaughan...
Simon Caldwell

Miss Universe and the obliteration of womanhood

there is an episode of  friends  where single girl phoebe struggles with the fact that the guy she is dating won’t sleep with her....
Katherine Bennett

Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past, by James Stourton

heritage: a history of how we conserve our past james stourton head of zeus, £40, 496 pages james stourton chooses a quotation on the theme ...
William Cash

More channel migrants is not the Christian response

a few weeks ago, at the checkout of a department store close to the seafront in dover, i overheard a mildly alarming exchange between the pe...
Niall Gooch

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

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

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

Merely Catholic with Simon Caldwell: The Beast of Bethulia Park

dr gavin ashenden talks to the journalist simon caldwell about his debut novel, the beast of bethulia park, in this 21st episode of merely c...
The Catholic Herald

Religious violence comes to England

communalist violence is erupting in england, more specifically the english city of leicester in the midlands, one of the most racially diver...
The Catholic Herald

On Our Lady, the Assumption and 'Trans'

during this last week, at his general audience, pope francis met with his fourth group of ‘trans guests’. these were offered refuge by the c...
Gavin Ashenden