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Canonist. Cerimoniere. Parish Priest.
Essex
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There used to be an easy way of resolving the matter of honouring multiple saints on the same day…
The @USCCB now faces an issue that 2 of the most popular optional memorials will be on December 9: St. Juan Diego & Bl/St (soon) Fulton J. Sheen. We should work out a way to be able to celebrate both.
Quite the rebuke of a number of forms of secularism, which seem indistinguishable from government over-reach and State monopoly on conscience.
‘A just secularism therefore does not consist in excluding religion from the public sphere or from education, but in committing to ensuring that the State and religious institutions dialogue with one another and join their forces in the service of the common good.’
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The annual ritual of reviving and then cancelling the Chagos Deal under a new Prime Minister whenever the Americans object to it was originally a pagan festival, actually
UK to review Chagos Islands deal after Trump's latest criticism bbc.in/47io0Gw
Attitudes like this are one of the reasons these crimes took 10 years to be taken seriously. They are also a reason why the disgusting evils being committed against girls today may well not come to light any time soon.
'Is Elon Musk clear that a lot of grooming cases he talks about happened ten years ago?'
Rory Stewart explains why he believes there are more important issues facing Britain than gangs of 'predominantly Pakistani Muslim men' grooming women and girls.
Watch in full | youtube.com/watch?v=qmf26sXu… | @RoryStewartUK | @michaelgove | @elonmusk
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The rape gang phenomenon is an ongoing issue, with prosecutions for crimes as recent as 2025. The Casey review cites ongoing prevalence in new investigations, occurrence nationwide rather than a single small group, and the cover up by various police forces.
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1/10 This is a curious move. There is a strong case for changing a law which singles out Catholics and Jews for exclusion. In a country where Christianity itself is now a minority faith, that discrimination is difficult to defend.
EXC: Legislation to remove the constitutional bar on Catholics advising the King on Church of England appointments being introduced in the Commons tomorrow
It’s our first Catholic prime minister’s first bill
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9/10 Yet when his Catholicism apparently places its first concrete limit upon what he may do, his immediate response is not to accept that boundary but to legislate so that his faith no longer impinges upon his freedom of action.
Compare this speech with the moving contribution from Ashley Dalton. The contrast is stark: the advocates of AS callously playing politics to downplay the dangers posed to vulnerable people by badly drafted legislation deliberately designed to draw more people within its scope.
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To understand why the assisted suicide bill failed, start with this exchange between Danny Kruger and Kim Leadbeater.
Again and again opponents pointed out the disturbing consequences of the bill, and supporters just tried to avoid talking about them:
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This is the constitution working. The expert house asked the elected house to think again. The Commons did so, and agreed with the Lords that the Bill wasn't safe.
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I am grateful that the majority of MPs voted in the way they did. It was always a flawed and dangerous bill, wrong in principle and practice. Let’s get palliative care right.
She deserves compassion. But her case does not answer concerns about safeguards in the Assisted Suicide Bill. Having lived over three years with stage-four cancer, she also shows how uncertain 6-month prognoses are Compassion and opposition to an unsafe law are go hand in hand.
I'm sorry to read this about Esther Rantzen, but her health status isn't relevant to the vote today, and I don't think it speaks well of the campaign for medically-assisted suicide that this was made public on the eve of the vote.
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