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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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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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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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Russian nuclear orthodoxy

by | Apr 26, 2022 | , , , | 0 |

For Patriarch Kirill nuclear weapons are necessary for salvation, explains Mark Jenkins Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, is a practising Russian Orthodox believer who often accompanies President Putin on visits to Orthodox monasteries in remote areas across the Russian Federation. At the entrance to Moscow’s Red Square the small Iveron Chapel is said to

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