If assisted suicide is legalised in Britain, “a key protection of human life falls away”, according to Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and Archbishop of Westminster. In a statement that was read to all his parishes last weekend, the English cardinal says the right to die “can become…
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Mary McAleese, the former president of the Republic of Ireland, has backed calls for the Catholic Church to end priestly celibacy. McAleese, currently chancellor of Trinity University, spoke to The Irish News after Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta, who also serves as an adjunct secretary of the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine…
Scotland’s bishops are urging voters to consider ongoing efforts to legalise assisted suicide when the vote in elections for the Scottish parliament on May 6. They also pointed to the current efforts to introduce assisted suicide in Scotland” In a pastoral letter issued April 9, the bishops urged voters to put “human life and the…
Proposed changes to Britain’s surrogacy laws would lead to the “further demeaning of pregnancy”, according to the leading Catholic bioethics centre in the country. Under current UK law, commercial surrogacy – that is, the hiring of a woman to bear a child for another person or couple – is illegal, although ‘altruistic surrogacy’ is not.…
Since Brexit has dominated the UK news for the past three years, it might be easy to miss the great strides being made by the government in promoting religious freedom in the same time period. The latest move has been to appoint Rehman Chishti, a Conservative Member of Parliament, as the new Prime Minister’s Special…
Letter from Scotland A motion to remove the voting rights of religious representatives on education boards is “a serious threat to the identity” of Catholic schools in the Scottish capital, according to a spokesperson of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh. Scottish law mandates that three religious representatives serve on each school board.…
Lenin once famously asked, “how can you make a revolution without firing squads?” Boris Johnson, Britain’s newly appointed prime minister, has taken that advice to heart – in his first hours in office, over half the ministers in outgoing prime minster Theresa May’s government were pushed out or resigned. Much like Donald Trump – a…