Parents who choose a faith school for their children have a right to expect the state to support them, the most senior Catholic cleric in England and Wales has said. The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols (pictured), issued an impassioned defence of faith schools after a high profile legal challenge to...
Family structure has an impact on the welfare of children, according to the latest part of a comprehensive Government-sponsored study on children. The report cites research showing that children in one-parent families “are likely to do less well on a number of child development indicators than children in two-parent families”. Report 5 of the...
Doctors must be servants of life, and “there is no human life more sacred than another, as there is no human life more significant than another,” Pope Francis has told a group of doctors. In an audience yesterday in Rome with members of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations the Pope said, “the first...
State authorities such as the HSE have produced only a “limited response” to the hundreds of recommendations resulting from the 29 inquiries into the State’s handling of child abuse cases over the past two decades, a new study says. The research, commissioned by the Government and carried out by academics from Trinity College, found that...
The family founded on the marriage of a man and a woman is the path through which “faith, love and fundamental moral values are transmitted, as well as concrete solidarity, hard work, patience, and also plans, hope, and future,” Pope Francis (pictured) has said. In a message last week to those partcipating in the 47th...
The most senior MP in the Liberal Democrat party in the UK, Sir Alan Beith, says “silly” interpretations of equality laws are forcing British Christians to hide their faith. Sir Alan, the longest-serving Liberal MP since David Lloyd George, is the former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats and chair of the Commons Justice Select...
France has launched a “secularism charter” for State schools which claims to promote “total respect for freedom of conscience” but forbids the wearing of religious symbols and garb in schools and bans pupils from boycotting classes for religious or political reasons. The charter is the Government’s latest bid to enforce the official policy of...
France has launched a “secularism charter” for State schools which claims to promote “total respect for freedom of conscience” but forbids the wearing of religious symbols and garb in schools and bans pupils from boycotting classes for religious or political reasons. The charter is the Government’s latest bid to enforce the official policy of...
A group which lobbies for patients who use IVF treatment are to meet with private health insurers in the coming weeks to discuss the possibility of offering cover to policyholders seeking such treatments. Helen Browne, co-founder of the National Infertility Support and Information Group confirmed the meeting at the group’s national conference in Limerick at...
Replacing the terms ‘mother’ and ‘father’ with ‘parents’ is not a defence of “equality” but the start of a complete rewrite of Italian society, a prominent Italian cardinal said this week. The Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna, Carlo Caffarra (pictured) said that changing the categories of family life and genealogy could send “a real earthquake” through...
