Background: San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, well-known for his uncompromising defense of orthodox Catholic teaching and pro-life and pro-family values, urgently needs your help! Gay activists, politicians and dissident Catholics have launched an all-out media attack campaign against the archbishop after he recently announced that he wants to codify a long-standing, commonsense expectation that Catholic...
Pope Francis Since we've not yet discussed the promised papal encyclical on the environment, I thought this might be an interesting introductory discussion - this is the first time I've re-blogged a post. Looks interesting. Share your thoughts...
Question Time is a TV forum for debate broadcast UK-wide from different locations on BBC1 on Thursdays, after the 10pm news. I try to watch it, and manage to see it most weeks. However, I find I'm watching it more and more merely to marvel at the sheer predictability of both questions, answers and the inevitable...
Legal experts and the police said a law allowing assisted suicide in Scotland needed more clarity in order to remove the risk of someone being prosecuted. There is a "fine line" between assisting someone killing themselves and an act of euthanasia which could result in criminal charges, MSPs heard. The plans, contained in a backbench bill,...
"Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it" (Albert Einstein) Tell that to the highest court in the UK where the right of conscience NOT to participate in any way in the killing of unborn babies has been denied. Click on photo (left) to read the details in the case of the two Glasgow (Catholic) midwives...
Science and the Catholic Church by David K. Roemer Ph.D The purpose of [my] blog is to record the Vatican's response to the complaint I filed on October 1, 2014, against the Archbishop of the Diocese of New York for suppressing my slideshow/lecture about the Shroud of Turin. On March 30, 2011, a pastor in New York...
Below is the press release from the Scottish Catholic Media Office, dated 29 August, 2014. Editorial comment has been added in blue within the text, with the basic question for discussion: have the two Scots Archbishops missed a golden opportunity to preach about Catholic conscience and Catholic Social Teaching on the rule of Christ the...
Update - article submitted by blogger Leo... For He must reign, until He hath put all His enemies under His feet – 1 Corinthians 15:25 “With God and Jesus Christ excluded from political life, with authority derived not from God but from man, the very basis of that authority has been taken away, because the chief...
The Government has finalised the text of the landmark abortion legislation. The final legislation is not changed substantially from the earlier draft but the wording does: increase the number of hospitals where abortions can be carried out; alter what psychiatrists will be involved in assessments of suicidal pregnant women; narrow the definition of the criminal offence of carrying...
