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How Catholic schools stand on the front line against child poverty
School leaders tell us they’re increasingly taking the place of statutory support, and this isn’t only for children but also ...
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Israel, Iran and Netanyahu’s unjust war
Bombing raids by the Allies killed 10 times that number of Germans. In neither case did they trigger a popular uprising.
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Assisted dying – the right to die versus the right to life
Jeremy Bentham distinguished between what he called “derogatory” and “eulogistic” words, in short between “boo” and “hurray” ...
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Protesters refuse to forgive Church for Franco-era abuse of ‘fallen women’
Shouts of “neither forgive nor forget” disrupted a ground-breaking endeavour by a confederation of Spanish religious to ...
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Archbishop Sherrington pledges Church ‘will not abandon pregnant women and their unborn children’ as MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Speaking after MPs passed an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that effectively decriminalises abortion in England and ...
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Senate has ‘moral imperative’ to try Duterte, say Filipino bishops
The Philippines’ bishops urged the Senate to hold the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte immediately, calling ...
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Church ‘will not abandon pregnant women and their unborn children’ as MPs vote to decriminalise abortion
Speaking after MPs passed an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that effectively decriminalises abortion in England and ...
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Iconic Liverpool Catholic cathedral elevated to Grade I
The elevation of Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral is acknowledgement at the highest level of Sir Frederick Gibberd’s radical ...
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Sport is a ‘means of reconciliation’ says Pope Leo
“Champions are not perfectly functioning machines, but real men and women, who, when they fall, find the courage to get back ...
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‘Serious failures’ in assisted dying legislation
David Jones, Professor of Bioethics at St Mary’s University, Twickenham and Director of the Anscombe Centre, writing in a ...
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Christian crew members in Air India crash mourned
Two young Christian crew members were among 270 people who died when a London-bound aircraft crashed in Ahmedabad, in India’s ...
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Psalms stripped of poetry and impossible to sing
The new lectionary has now been in force since the beginning of Advent last year. I say “in force” rather than a more neutral expression, because there was no ...