A student at a US University who was told to change her beliefs on sexual ethics or leave her course has lost a legal challenge against the University, although she is now set to appeal. Jennifer Keeton, who is studying for a degree in counselling at Augusta State University in Georgia, was told she must...
Systematic persecution of Christians by the State is now almost inevitable in the West, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver has said. Speaking in Slovakia this week, Archbishop Chaput said that Christians faced “an aggressively secular political vision and a consumerist economic model that result – in practice, if not in explicit intent — in a...
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has threatened to sue a branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) if it tries to force religiously affiliated hospitals to perform abortions against the conscientious objections of their doctors and nurses. The Becket Fund wrote to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)...
In a landmark decision, a British couple falsely accused by social services of abusing their 3-month-old son have won the right to tell their story breaking the normal seal of silence that applies to family law cases. According to the BBC’s Panorama programme, first-time parents Jake and Victoria Ward were arrested on suspicion of causing...
Ireland is now the most expensive country in which to get child-care, according to a new study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). According to the survey, which looked at 32 industrialised countries, a double income couple with two children can pay up to 45 per cent of their net income on...
Children are at risk of being placed with “unsafe carers”, according to a damning new internal Health Service Executive (HSE) audit. The unpublished report comes after a summer of devastating revelations about the care of vulnerable children. Reports highlighting HSE lapses in looking after children in its care led to a number of experts in...
Don’t allow ‘aggressive secularists’ to reduce religious believers to ‘second class citizenship’, the director of The Iona Institute, David Quinn, told almost 10,000 people at Knock on Friday. Mr Quinn criticised politicians who warned the bishops that they should not “intrude” on “State matters”, or who told other politicians that they shouldn’t let religion...
Britain’s hypersexualised society is harming children and the problem is not being addressed, two feminist authors have said. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Kat Banyard and Natasha Walter hit out at the sheer amount of pornography in society. Kat Banyard said: “All the research shows that watching pornography leads to – as you...
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that bad parenting does more to hold poor children back than poverty. Mr Clegg suggested that parental support can be the crucial factor in determining the qualifications and job someone ends up with. Research suggests that British children are more likely to retain the same socio-economic class as...
Being married or in a long-term relationship improves your ability to deal with stress, new research suggests. The study showed that where a person who is part of a couple is put under pressure they produce fewer stress related hormones than their single counterparts. Scientists found students who had a partner who were given tests...
