Peter Newman

Jan 22, 2025 | voiceofthefamily.com | Roberto de Mattei |Peter Newman

By Roberto de Mattei   |   22 January 2025 Everyone knows about the Marian shrines of Loreto and Pompeii, and, in Rome, the great basilicas, but not everyone knows that, in the heart of the eternal city, there is a little parochial basilica, Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, also known as the Shrine of Our Lady of the Miracle. Here, on 20 January 1842, Our Lady appeared to a Jew, Alphonse Ratisbonne, and instantly converted him.

Dec 9, 2024 | msn.com | Peter Newman

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Dec 9, 2024 | scotsman.com | Peter Newman

With women in politics facing harassment and violence, election campaigns that highlight where candidates live are problematicGregg Wallace is a symptom, not a cause. Masterchef’s gabby grocer has outraged people with what is sure to go down in PR history as an example of the worst non-apologies in which he suggested the allegations against him came from "middle-class women of a certain age".

May 22, 2024 | voiceofthefamily.com | Ann Farmer |Peter Newman

By Ann Farmer   |   22 May 2024 The BBC documentary, Better Off Dead, could not have been given a more apt title. Presented by disabled actor and comedian Liz Carr, famous for her role in Silent Witness, the programme highlighted the vulnerability of people like her to other people viewing them as “better off dead”. It illustrated, in the starkest terms, that for the disabled, “assisted dying” is a disaster waiting to happen.

Jan 17, 2024 | voiceofthefamily.com | Roberto de Mattei |Peter Newman

By Roberto de Mattei   |   17 January 2024 This is the second part of the article begun in last week’s Digest, which was originally written by Professor Roberto de Mattei as an introduction to the Italian reprint of Draft of a dogmatic constitution on chastity, marriage, the family and virginity, one of the preparatory schemata fatefully rejected at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council.