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‘A farce beyond measure’: the queering of Joan of Arc

by | Aug 23, 2022 | , , | 0 |

St Joan of Arc, the “Maid of Orleans”, is one of history’s greatest heroines. A mystic who led an army into battle at the age of 17 after receiving heavenly messages from Ss Michael, Margaret and Catherine, her intervention in the Hundred Years’ War came at a moment which proved pivotal in the liberation of

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Why the overturning of Roe v Wade could reopen the abortion debate in Ireland

by | May 26, 2022 | , , , , | 0 |

The first paragraph of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade states:  Abortion presents a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply-conflicting views.   Replace America with Ireland, and the same has been the case for over 40 years, until recently. As of the past few years, the issue of abortion

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There is no human right to abortion

by | May 24, 2022 | , , , , | 0 |

In 1973 in the Roe v Wade case, the Supreme Court legalised abortion throughout the United States.  Now, almost fifty years later the same court is considering overturning that judgement and returning abortion law to the states to decide.   Media reporting of this case, especially in Europe, has been quite misleading. Often journalists have simply repeated

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Archbishop’s decision to bar Pelosi from Holy Communion is long overdue

by | May 23, 2022 | , , , , | 0 |

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has finally announced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should not be admitted to Holy Communion in his archdiocese, nor should she present herself to receive the Eucharist, until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion.  In a letter to the faithful he said, “after numerous attempts to speak with

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Catholics join ecumenical celebration of the Millennium of Bury St Edmunds Abbey

by | May 19, 2022 | , , | 0 |

The weekend of 14th and 15th May witnessed a historic return of Benedictine monks to the site of the Abbey of St Edmund, Bury St Edmunds, whose millennium is being celebrated by the town in 2022. Monks of the English Benedictine Congregation from Douai Abbey and Ampleforth Abbey were joined by the Bishop of East

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Light a candle for St Benet’s Hall

by | May 18, 2022 | , , , , | 0 |

Once gone, St Benet’s Hall will be impossible to replace, writes alumnus Damian Collins MP Like all current and former students of St Benet’s Hall I was distressed to read the statement from the Master this week that the Hall may no longer hold a licence from the University of Oxford beyond the current academic

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Brooks Newmark: Our man in Ukraine

by | May 18, 2022 | , , , | 0 |

Catholic Herald director and former MP Brooks Newmark has helped thousands of refugees to safety during the war Former MP Brooks Newmark has spent the last two months organising buses to move women, children and the elderly out of Ukraine to safety. To date, he has transported 7,692 refugees. Initially, he started moving people from the

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End of the road for St Benet’s Hall?

by | May 17, 2022 | , , , | 0 |

St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, looks set to close, writes Serenhedd James The optimism with which I wrote about the future of St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, in the February edition of the Catholic Herald was clearly misplaced. The Master, Professor Richard Cooper, has now written to students to say that the University Council decided on 9th May that

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Critics of Mother Teresa don’t have a clue about poverty

by | May 11, 2022 | , , , , | 0 |

Attacking the reputation of a Catholic saint, no longer alive to defend herself (although it’s unlikely she would bother in any case), is a popular sport. Christopher Hitchens set the tone in 1995 with his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and since then it has been open house on one of the Catholic

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Roe v Wade leak was an act of shameless intimidation

by | May 6, 2022 | , , , , | 0 |

Well, we knew it would get ugly but the left in America have gone full mafia tactics with the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Never in the history of the court has a draft opinion been leaked. This smashes the constitutional norms of the court and the

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Catholic children should be reading CS Lewis and GK Chesterton, not the blasphemous dross of Simon James Green

by | May 3, 2022 | , , , , | 0 |

Let’s keep this simple. If you think inviting an author of sexually explicit material that also has a sprinkling of blasphemy to a Catholic school is a good idea, then do not become a governor at that school and do not teach there. If you are a parent who has a child there I suggest

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