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Young women becoming increasingly irreligious in US
April 18, 2024
Young women are leaving US Churches in “unprecedented numbers”, according to a new survey from the American Enterprise Institute. It demonstrates, argues Carmel Richardson in The American Conservative, what some had already begun to speculate: that as young women move politically left as a group, they also become more irreligious. AEI’s survey of some 5,500 Americans of
Belgian court strikes down order shuttering National Conservatism conference for hosting the ‘conservative, religious right’
April 17, 2024
The Belgian justice system has acted promptly to protect the freedoms of speech and assembly by issuing a decisive emergency late-night ruling in favour of the conference on National Conservativism that has been mired in controversy and disruption since it began yesterday in Brussels. The conference, scheduled for 16 – 17 April, will now be able to
Police escort again needed at Manchester University to protect pro-life speaker from screaming pro-abortion mob
April 16, 2024
A screaming pro-abortion mob forced local police to intervene at the University of Manchester to provide an escort to a pro-life speaker, who also had to take transport to a different location to her accommodation because of concerns about her safety. For the second time this year, on the evening of 11 April police had to be
France’s clash between church bell ringing and stroppy ‘rural newcomers’ 
April 11, 2024
The French government aims to pass a law that could help protect the ringing of church bells across the country’s rural regions that are the bastion of French Catholicism.  The move follows tensions in rural areas following a rise in noise complaints attributed to residents who have moved to the countryside from big cities “bemoaning
Pilgrimage Standoff: Assisi or Santiago de Compostela – it’s a tough call
April 07, 2024
Can a person commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In all the planning leading up to taking a group of Catholic Herald pilgrims along a portion of the Via di Francesco – the Way of St Francis – to Assisi in Italy, I felt a strange sense of unease about being engaged in a form of betrayal. For
‘Prayer for Holy Week’ by Elizabeth Jennings: ‘Love me in my willingness to suffer’
March 26, 2024
Prayer for Holy Week Love me in my willingness to sufferLove me in the gifts I wish to offer          Teach me how you love and have to die                    And I will try Somehow to forget myself and giveLife and joy so dead things start to live.          Let me show now an untrammelled joy,                   Gold without
Controversial ‘Semana Santa’ poster causes Holy Week rift in Seville
March 20, 2024
The annual Semana Santa celebrations in the Andalusian gem that is Seville are a riot of pageantry, religious fervour and artistic flare – though that artistic licence is under intense scrutiny this year due to the choice of official poster to accompany the famous Holy Week celebrations.  The majority of the processions and accompanying devotional events
Donald Trump says his goal is cross-party abortion compromise that includes ‘exceptions’  
March 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has spoken about his intention to push for abortion legislation in the US that would get the support of both Republicans and Democrats.  “I would like to see if we could make both sides happy,” the former president told Fox News Channel’s “MediaBuzz” on 17 March. The overturning of Roe v. Wade by
Israeli historian calls out International Women’s Day for forgetting female hostages in Gaza 
March 14, 2024
In the wake of the recent celebration of International Women’s Day a prominent Israeli historian specialising in gender issues has decried how the global event appeared to have no time for the 19 women who remain captives of the insurgent-terrorist group Hamas. Noting that most of the women have likely endured sexual violence, Tamar Herzig was speaking at
‘Terrified’ pro-life student group needs police protection from baying mob at Manchester University
March 02, 2024
A student pro-life group who met at the University of Manchester required police intervention due to a hostile crowd of up to 250 people that surrounded the building where the meeting took place. The student pro-life group, Manchester Pro-Life Society, met for a talk on the evening of 1 March. The harassment began as soon
Ukrainian Catholic community in UK count the costs and kindnesses at two-year anniversary of Russian invasion
February 22, 2024
In the basement of the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in central London is the Ukrainian Welcome Centre that has been serving refugees since the start of a war that is about to enter its third year. The two-year anniversary is fast approaching in two day’s time on 24 February, giving Ukrainian refugees who have had to
‘The Road to Wild Wales’: BBC pilgrimage series returns to explore landscape of early Celtic saints
February 21, 2024
The North Wales Pilgrim’s Way will feature in the sixth series of Pilgrimage that returns to the BBC in March 2024, as seven public figures of differing faiths and beliefs tackle a modern-day pilgrimage. Across three 60-minute episodes on BBC Two – also available on BBC iPlayer – Pilgrimage: The Road to Wild Wales will follow the seven pilgrims as they journey
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