In recent weeks, alarming reports have emerged about how groups of vulnerable patients have been asked, via a letter or a phone call by their GP, to sign a Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (DNACPR) notice/order. This has resulted in justified outrage, with family members distraught at the idea their loved one is being asked to ‘sacrifice themselves’ for someone deemed more worthy of treatment, and others claiming it’s ‘legal eugenics made to sound like euthanasia’…
Read MoreFrom the inception of the Government’s efforts to contain COVID-19 by the creation of extraordinary emergency powers and civil contingencies, the abortion lobby have seized the chance to further their agenda of making abortion practice more and more permissive, and undermining the few right-to-life protections for unborn children, and pregnant mothers, that exist in UK law…
Read MoreThe acquittal of Cardinal George Pell by Australia’s High Court this week was greeted with jubilation by many, and with a mixture of dismay, scorn, and anger by many others; for the former, the unanimous decision to quash all charges against the cardinal was a simple case of justice being done, whereas for the latter it seemed that a powerful man had won out over the pleas of victims.
Read MoreIn the middle of March this year we were hearing a lot about the COVID-19 virus and its effects abroad, but it all seemed a little academic. Then within the space of about a week, we went from taking more stringent hygiene precautions to being completely unable to attend Mass in our churches. This had a dramatic effect on the life of our parish.
Read MoreHardly had Catholics in England and Wales accepted the new reality of Masses being celebrated behind closed doors than the bishops of England and Wales announced that churches would be closed even outside of service times, preventing the faithful from praying privately there.
Read MoreWestminster’s Cardinal Vincent Nichols has said that to help protect priests and people during the coronavirus epidemic, churches in England and Wales are preparing to suspend the celebration of Masses with congregations.
Read MoreThe news on the weekend that the late Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche, had manipulative and abusive sexual relationships with at least six women will have shocked Catholics and others he inspired through his life; if someone who so many thought of as a living saint was not the real deal, then who is?
Read MoreThere was something ironic in how it was while being interviewed in Salford Cathedral that Rebecca Long-Bailey MP sparked controversy by saying that her Catholicism had helped form her politics and that abortion law in the UK discriminates against the disabled by allowing for the abortion of disabled foetuses right up to birth.
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