Simon Caldwell, Author at Catholic Herald

Simon Caldwell

Italian regulator pulls ‘blasphemous’ crisps advert from the airwaves

April 12, 2024

Italian regulators have pulled a “blasphemous” television advert in which nuns are offered crisps instead of consecrated hosts during a Mass. The advert for Amica Chips provoked a huge backlash within the Catholic nation, with claims that it “debased” and “vilified” Jesus Christ. The Institute of Advertising Self-Discipline, Italy’s advertising standards authority, has now upheld

Murdered Catholic MP Sir David Amess honoured with seafront statue

April 12, 2024

A statue of murdered Catholic politician Sir David Amess has been unveiled his former constituency town of Southend. Sir David, the Conservative MP for Southend West, Essex, was stabbed to death while holding a surgery for constituents in Leigh-on-Sea in October 2021. Ali Harbi Ali, a British Muslim of Somali origin, was in 2022 convicted

British archbishop visiting Vietnam to help Vatican rebuild diplomatic ties

April 10, 2024

Liverpool-born Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organisations, is currently visiting Vietnam and staying as a guest of the government until Sunday in a bid to continue improving diplomatic ties between the Vatican and the Southeast Asian country. Archbishop Gallagher has said little publicly about the purposes of

‘I’m a cultural Christian’, declares Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous atheist

April 05, 2024

Richard Dawkins – one of the world’s most famous atheists – has declared himself to be a “cultural Christian”. The author of The God Delusion, a 2006 best-selling attack on the existence of God, made his remarks in an interview with Rachel Johnson for LBC radio in which they discussed how the Muslim season of

Nicaragua, the land where beauty queens are persecuted and spies film homilies of priests

April 05, 2024

Sat at a desk in an office close to Westminster Cathedral, Juan Sebastián Chamorro appears every inch a distinguished politician. He is a well-groomed man of 53 who speaks perfect English with a Nicaraguan accent, even mastering slang. He has after all had a little time to brush up on his second language because since

New evidence indicates Turin Shroud not a European forgery

March 26, 2024

New scientific tests conducted on the famous Shroud of Turin have revealed that the flax used to make the linen was grown in the Middle East. The results of isotope tests provide new evidence that the shroud is the actual garment that was used to cover the body of Jesus Christ following his crucifixion –

Let the debate on assisted suicide and euthanasia focus on the facts, not the propaganda

March 24, 2024

Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party and the man on course to be the next Prime Minister, has committed himself to bringing forward a Bill to legalise “assisted dying”, the contemporary euphemism for assisted suicide or euthanasia. In a telephone call filmed by ITV, Mr Starmer assured Dame Esther Rantzen, a cancer sufferer

Southwark archbishop: Catholics must fight ‘aggressive’ euthanasia campaign

March 24, 2024

The Archbishop of Southwark has urged Catholics to write to their MPs to ask them to resist any changes to the laws prohibiting assisted suicide and euthanasia. The Most Rev. John Wilson said in a pastoral letter that the UK was gripped by the “aggressive promotion” of doctor-assisted killing which threatened the most vulnerable members

Oregon patient suffers five-day lingering death by assisted suicide as cases soar in US state

March 24, 2024

The latest US government report on assisted suicide in Oregon has revealed that rates have increased by 20 per cent in the last year alone. The official statistics also provide startling new evidence of botched assisted suicides, where instead of ‘dying with dignity’ one patient took a record five days to expire after ingesting a

Labour leader Keir Starmer ‘commits’ to assisted suicide vote if Prime Minister

March 14, 2024

The leader of the UK’s Labour Party has stated his personal commitment to changing the law on assisted suicide and promised to bring forward a Bill to legalise the practice if he is elected Prime Minister in the forthcoming General Election. Sir Keir Starmer made his pledge in a telephone conversation with Dame Esther Rantzen, a celebrity

Over 700 medical professionals back biggest change to UK abortion law in a generation

March 11, 2024

More than 700 medical professionals have called on MPs to lower the upper time limits for abortions by two weeks. They want politicians to back an amendment to the Government’s Criminal Justice Bill, in what would be the biggest change to abortion law for a generation, when the legislation arrives in the House of Commons

Euthanasia deaths in Belgium reach record high

March 06, 2024

Deaths by euthanasia in Belgium have hit a record high, new government figures have revealed. The number of people dying by a lethal injection at the hands of their doctors has also nearly doubled in the space of just 10 years, according to the Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia. Statistics show that in

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