-
1 week ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Simon Caldwell |Lucia Silecchia |Greg Kandra
(OSV News) -- Members of British Parliament have voted overwhelmingly in favor of decriminalizing abortion up to birth. After two hours of debate in the House of Commons June 17, with a majority of 242 votes needed, MPs voted 379 to 137 in support of an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, which removes criminal liability from any woman who aborts her child for any reason up to and during birth.
-
Jan 10, 2025 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
Mel Gibson has criticised Pope Francis for allegedly acting as if he believes all religions are valid before God. The Australian director of The Passion of the Christ, an acclaimed 2004 movie about the Crucifixion starring Jim Caviezel, cited the so-called “Pachamama scandal” as an example of the Pope’s alleged religious pluralism.
-
Dec 6, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
Back in 1996, when the police investigated real crimes instead of spending 60,000 hours a year scrolling X for “non-crime hate incidents”, Noel Gallagher bragged to Melody Maker about how he and other Oasis band members used to burgle houses and steal cars before they became famous. Unimpressed, Det. Chief Supt.
-
Dec 5, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
Fears are mounting that new pensions rules could coerce elderly people into requesting assisted suicide so that their loved ones do not inherit enormous tax bills. At present, if a person dies before they reach the age of 75 then that individual’s pension is passed on without the deduction of income tax of up to 45 per cent.
-
Nov 29, 2024 | 
catholicregister.org | Simon Caldwell
Members of Parliament voted by 330 to 275 for the "Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill," which will permit doctor-assisted deaths for adult patients deemed to have less than six months to live.
Although the bill must pass through several stages in both Houses of Parliament in London, the Nov. 29 vote in the House of Commons means that it is extremely likely that the bill will pass into law.
Following the vote, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth told OSV News that he expected the outcome.
-
Nov 29, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
MPs today voted for an assisted suicide Bill in an historic moment which was described by a senior Catholic bishop as a “dark day for our country”. The Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill passed Second Reading by 330 votes to 275, a majority of 55, making extremely likely that assisting in suicides will be lawful for the first time in British history. At present, assisted suicide is prohibited by up to 14 years in jail under the Suicide Act 1961, though prosecutions are rare.
-
Nov 28, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
A prominent German cardinal has attacked the plans of Pope Francis to impose “synodality” on the Catholic Church as “a sin against the Holy Spirit”. Cardinal Gerhard Müller said that moves to replace a hierarchical system of governance with that of a democratic process which allows even for regional variations of doctrine was a “sin against the Holy Spirit”.
-
Nov 26, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
Cardinal Vincent Nichols has signed a joint letter with the UK’s religious leaders opposing the assisted suicide Bill. The Archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales put his name to the open letter warning MPs of the dangers of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which will be put to a vote at Second Reading on Friday.
-
Nov 23, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, has come out strongly against assisted suicide just a week before a crucial vote in the House of Commons. Mr Brown, who succeeded Tony Blair in 2007 and served until 2010, said that he instead favoured investment in good quality health care for people at the end of their lives.
-
Nov 15, 2024 | 
catholicherald.co.uk | Simon Caldwell
Assisted suicide campaigner Dame Esther Rantzen today received a rebuke from the leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales for suggesting that he had no right to publicly oppose a change in the law. Dame Esther, a former television presenter who is suffering from terminal lung cancer, extracted a promise from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for parliamentary time to be given to a Bill to allow medics to help patients to kill themselves.
