Simon Caldwell writes for OSV News from Liverpool, England.
The parents of a young woman branded "delusional" for wanting continued hospital treatment instead of palliative care have won a court battle over the legality of the ruling that led to their daughter's death.
Sudiksha Thirumalesh, who was 19 at the time, died
Human rights defender Bianca Jagger has accused the Nicaraguan dictatorship of creating a spiritual vacuum in the country by its purge of Catholic clergy.
Jagger said the Jan. 14 expulsion of two bishops, 15 priests and two seminarians to the Vatican was part
A new survey undertaken by the Catholic Union of Great Britain, a group set up to scrutinize public policy and make representations to the government on behalf of the church, discovered that 62% of 1,000 people interviewed said their mental and physical
The Church of St. Mary will be called a co-cathedral while the main seat of Archbishop Malcolm McMahon of Liverpool will remain with the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool city center.
Co-cathedrals are rare and usually come into existence either
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested in March outside a British Pregnancy Advisory Services clinic in Birmingham by two uniformed officers from West Midlands Police and has finally received notification that she will not be prosecuted.
In a video of the arrest, an officer is
A Catholic bioethics institute has criticized a court for denying an "alert and conscious" teenager the legal right to fight a move to put her on end-of-life care against her will. The Anscombe Bioethics Center, an Oxford-based institute serving the Catholic Church
London March for Life participants were seen holding signs with messages such as "Abortion destroys the freedom to live" and "Life from conception, no exception."
Organizers said later that more than 10,000 might have attended the rally, which went from the Emmanuel Center
An English Catholic bishop said he supported the decision of a judge to jail a woman for two years after she aborted her baby almost a month before she was due to give birth.
Carla Foster, 44, took the abortion-inducing drugs sent to